G00gle has secret deal to collect health info on millions of Americans While we're following impeachment, Google is making deals to profit from mining your health data, complete with all patient records. They claim its for 'our' benefit, but I strongly suspect the elites would get a nice bonus from it all - a pool of genetically compatible organs and body parts. Google has a deal with the second-largest health-care systems in the United States, Ascension, to gather and crunch data on millions of Americans across 21 states, according to the Wall Street Journal. The initiative is codenamed “Project Nightingale,” and is described as “the largest in a series of efforts by Silicon Valley giants to gain access to personal health data and establish a toehold in the massive health-care industry.” Amazon and Microsoft are also described as muscling into the medical industry, though apparently they have yet to strike deals quite this large. The Data Isn’t Anonymized The WSJ claims that the data “encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses, and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.” Neither patients nor doctors have been notified in their inclusion in these data sets. All of this is legal under HIPAA, which allows hospitals to share data with business partners so long as the information is being used “to help the covered entity carry out its health care functions.” Apparently some employees of Ascension attempted to raise concerns about how this data was being used, but their complaints were dismissed, according to the report. https://www.extremetech.com/internet/301802-google-struck-a-deal-to-secretly-access-health-data-on-millions-of-americans