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So what do we do to stop this? What recourse do people directly affected by this have?
Go to fitbit and delete your data. I just did; it's pretty painless. login, click on the wheel, and the delete link is at the bottom.
That has no effect on the central theme of the story (which is health care firms partnering with Google as a Business Associate, and thereby sharing patient data).
Any google employees/friends of google employees here with insight as how staff is receiving this news? My guess is like all other egregious abuses of power, the employees will stage a "protest" to feel good about themselves then keep working there.
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> Does anybody enforce this or do we just take Google at their word? Yes, the DHHS Office of Civil Rights enforces HIPAA Privacy and Security rules. That enforcement is reactive of there is no independent regular compliance certification or monitoring required, however, which is a weakness, but the fact that detection of violation can lead to personal as well as institutional penalties, and that those penalties are c…
Thank you. So this department has the authority and capability to ensure (to a reasonable degree) that Google does not abuse this data?
If entering into a BAA under HIPAA for work involving PHI is “harvest”, and you're worried that this reaches “millions” for Google, you probably don't want to think about the deals public and private firms in the healthcare and health insurance/payments space have with Amazon and Microsoft. From the news article (I don't have time to review the source leak indepently) there doesn't seem to be anything really concerni…
If entering into a BAA under HIPAA for work involving PHI is “harvest”, and you're worried that this reaches “millions” for Google, you probably don't want to think about the deals public and private firms in the healthcare and health insurance/payments space have with Amazon and Microsoft. From the news article (I don't have time to review the source leak indepently) there doesn't seem to be anything really concerni…
However, their little snafu with SureScripts and Remy Health just got them banned from accessing healthcare history - however there are pending FBI and FTC investigations regarding their mis-management of healthcare data. Worst case, the digital pharmacy Amazon just bought will be barred from sending or receiving digital prescriptions and their HIPAA accreditation will be voided for three years (with a fine).
Seems like a great way to waste a couple hundred million dollars.
> Google could go on to use its AI analytics to predict outcomes for individual patients, they posited. This is the most scary part[0]. I'm sure plenty here would disagree, but I simply don't (yet) share your optimism for A.I. [0] Not that the rest isn't scary.
Can I please have my life back please?
dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21507370
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> and patient data cannot and will not be combined with any Google consumer data. Does anybody enforce this or do we just take Google at their word?
Does anyone enforce any law?
I wonder if this is not a coincidence given acquisition of fitbit.
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This is not "fake news" at all. This is the same factual event covered with a different spin. Use of the term "fake news" to describe reporting that is merely slanted in a direction you don't like--rather than presenting demonstrably false information as fact--is completely unwarranted, and is doing terrible damage to our social institutions.
This is a TEXTBOOK case of fake news - a newspaper owned by Google competitor spinning purchase of space on encrypted Cloud Storage and Google Apps productivity suite as a big medical data mining attempt by Google to drive a political agenda. There are obvious concerns around data security here, but the article is very heavily distorting facts to drive outrage.