Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
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Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#2How is this not a criminal breach of HIPAA laws?
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials...
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#3Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#4What is actually happening here? A lot of rhetoric about the "Transfer of data" etc, but other times this just reads like a Google Cloud Infrastructure play, with some consulting on top.
Also - The deal was only just signed, e.g. the transfer hasn't happened yet?
There's a lot of hearsay in all of this reporting...
Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#5What is actually happening here? A lot of rhetoric about the "Transfer of data" etc, but other times this just reads like a Google Cloud Infrastructure play, with some consulting on top. Also - The deal was only just signed, e.g. the transfer hasn't happened yet? There's a lot of hearsay in all of this reporting...
Seems like a lot of fake news over a cloud storage deal
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/our...
Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#6What is actually happening here? A lot of rhetoric about the "Transfer of data" etc, but other times this just reads like a Google Cloud Infrastructure play, with some consulting on top. Also - The deal was only just signed, e.g. the transfer hasn't happened yet? There's a lot of hearsay in all of this reporting...
Seems like a lot of fake news over a cloud storage deal https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/our...
Well, that seems a lot less sensational than the article. Covers HIPAA as well.
Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#7I wonder if this is not a coincidence given acquisition of fitbit.
Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#8So what do we do to stop this? What recourse do people directly affected by this have?
Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#9How is this not a criminal breach of HIPAA laws? https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials...
The article says that it might be: "According to the whistleblower, the security fears raised at that meeting, including concerns that the transfer may be in breach of federal HIPAA rules on data privacy, have so far gone unanswered by Google."
That said, most people do not understand how HIPAA works (I am in no way saying you are one of these people). Unless you are a healthcare provider (think doctor) or a business that is supporting those providers (think 3rd party tools built specifically for managing healthcare records) it's pretty difficult to have a legitimate HIPAA complaint made against you.
Re: Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions
#10I wonder if this is not a coincidence given acquisition of fitbit.
Google's been investing in medical data analysis long before buying Fitbit. They got in trouble for DeepMind's involvement with NHS data over in the UK, which started years ago. And then Google absorbed that whole project from DeepMind into Google Cloud proper, after assuring the British government Google would never have access to the data from the project.
tl;dr: Unrelated avenue in a field they've been interested in for a long time.