Facebook tried to access and match medical data: report
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/06/facebook_tried_to_slurp_medical_data/
You’d think recent events might have dulled Facebook’s rapacious lust for data. But now comes news, from CNBC, that The Social Network™ tried to acquire access to patients’ medical records.
The network’s report says Facebook approached “several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project.”
Facebook tried to access and match medical data: report
Apr 6, 2018, 5:13am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/06/facebook_tried_to_slurp_medical_data/
>You’d think recent events might have dulled Facebook’s rapacious lust for data. But now comes news, from CNBC, that The Social Network™ tried to acquire access to patients’ medical records.
>The network’s report says Facebook approached “several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project.”