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2018-04-06 -Land of the Free

FB sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data (opens to video)

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-06 02:10|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Courtesy of the Mark 'We are the new CIA' Zukerberg, CEO of Facebook of course.

Posted by Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 2018-04-06 02:19|| 2018-04-06 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The ~~DNA Trials~~ proposal never went past the planning phases and has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal raised public concerns.....

Representatives from the NSA data center at Camp Williams and Ancestry.com in Lehi, Utah declined to be interviewed.

The Healthcare Distribution Alliance, a national trade association representing wholesale distributors of opioids had no comment as well.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-06 02:25|| 2018-04-06 02:25|| Front Page Top

#3 "Facebook reportedly intended to compare the data, which included prescription information and illnesses, with its own data that it collected from users, in order to flag users that may need hospital care."

Posted by 3dc 2018-04-06 05:43|| 2018-04-06 05:43|| Front Page Top

#4 that may need hospital care."

Or should be reported to the NICS for SWAT raids.

Posted by AlanC 2018-04-06 07:49|| 2018-04-06 07:49|| Front Page Top

#5 There are federal laws against doing this without the patient's consent, but then, as far as FB and the rest of the Silicon Billionaire Scum are concerned, it doesn't matter.

I wonder what would happen if I posted this to my facebook page? The one I haven't gone to in many months?

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-06 10:25|| 2018-04-06 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Those laws do not apply if the data is 'anonymized'. That is any patient identification is removed (or scrambled). I guess there are some pretty rigid requirements as to how that is done and you have to be 'certified'.

Take that masses of data and apply analytics and you can come up with some corralations. For example that a large number of pregnancy tests insurance claims were being rejected because the patients were.... male.

Of course you have to ask yourself - What does Facebook know about healthcare? The answer is not much. And you have to wonder how 'open-ended' their use is.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-04-06 11:04|| 2018-04-06 11:04|| Front Page Top

#7 What does Facebook know about healthcare?

FB knows enough to determine a pregger insurance claimant is susceptible to prenatal vitamin marketing, and later 'huggies' then stupid little headbows and formula.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-06 12:14|| 2018-04-06 12:14|| Front Page Top

#8 What does Facebook know about healthcare?

Facebook doesn't have to know anything about healthcare. Big Pharma and ~~Obamacare~~ will provide all the necessary key words and phrases.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-06 12:32|| 2018-04-06 12:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Frightening!

Posted by borgboy 2018-04-06 14:20|| 2018-04-06 14:20|| Front Page Top

#10 If they are trying to marry up FB behavior with individual health records, there HAS to be a violation of confidentiality of the health record.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-04-06 14:51|| 2018-04-06 14:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Conspiracy by FB to violate HIPAA laws?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-04-06 18:10|| 2018-04-06 18:10|| Front Page Top

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