Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
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Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#2I wonder what they do at the “Zuckerberg General Hospital and Trauma Center” in San Francisco
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#3Although the medical data itself may be "anonymized", surely FB is in a position to associate that data with actual people, given that they know so much about a person's schedule, location, searches and private messages.
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#4Surely this passes into the realms of illegality?
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#5Surely this passes into the realms of illegality?
Those laws are just for you and I.
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#6The pile on continues...
(1) This is probably a project by a small "research" group at Facebook. The goal of that group is probably to publish papers in a Psych journal or something like that about how they were able to correlate anonymized medical data with Facebook feed updates. Tech companies have these research groups for prestige, they are not central to the company mission.
(2) According to the article, the project was never actually started. So it sounds like a bit of a non-story.
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#7Surely this passes into the realms of illegality?
I was wondering something similar. If Party B acquires Party A's anonymized-but-subject-to-HIPAA data and successfully deanonymizes it, who is liable? If the data is deanonymized, doesn't this mean the data wasn't sufficiently anonymized to begin with and Party A has some liability? Is Party B also liable since their goal from the start was to deanonymize the data?
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#8The pile on continues... (1) This is probably a project by a small "research" group at Facebook. The goal of that group is probably to publish papers in a Psych journal or something like that about how they were able to correlate anonymized medical data with Facebook feed updates. Tech companies have these research groups for prestige, they are not central to the company mission. (2) According to the article, the pro…
I dislike/disagree with facebook more than most folks, but even I can smell a dead horse being beaten.
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#9FB seems to have (rightly) realised that this is one of those 'just because we can, doesn't mean we should' cases, especially given the current situation. It's a bit of a non-story, and if I squint I can see the possible academic value in it, but given how battered FB's reputation is right now it's definitely not the time to try something like this.
I am sure that the privacy issues could be overcome with a properly run experiment, however there probably needs to be some rigour around that (possibly more than what was going to be provided given FB's history).
Re: Facebook was in talks with hospitals about a proposal to share data
#10The pile on continues... (1) This is probably a project by a small "research" group at Facebook. The goal of that group is probably to publish papers in a Psych journal or something like that about how they were able to correlate anonymized medical data with Facebook feed updates. Tech companies have these research groups for prestige, they are not central to the company mission. (2) According to the article, the pro…
How long do you think it would take to de-anonymize this data for a somebody who specialized in this?