NIGHTMARE SCENARIO
ALREADY IN PLACE IN THE DARK, WITHOUT PATIENTS BEING TOLD
GOOGLE & ASCENSION HEALTH SYSTEM FORM
ALREADY IN PLACE IN THE DARK, WITHOUT PATIENTS BEING TOLD
GOOGLE & ASCENSION HEALTH SYSTEM FORM
"PROJECT NIGHTINGALE" COLLECTS YOUR PERSONAL MEDICAL INFORMATION
ASCENSION
CATHOLIC CONGLOMERATE OF HEALTH INSTITUTIONS SPYING ON PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS WITH GOOGLE SINCE 2018
QUOTES:
"Ascension is the largest Catholic health system in the world and the largest non-profit health system in the United States with facilities in 23 states and the District of Columbia."
Project Nightingale
"A notable initiative from 2018 includes a partnership with Google via "Project Nightingale": a secret project to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states.
The initiative appears to be the largest in a series of efforts by Silicon Valley giants to gain access to personal health data and establish a toehold in the massive health-care industry. Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.
The data involved in Project Nightingale includes lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, complete with patient names and dates of birth.
Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Some Ascension employees have raised questions about the way the data is being collected and shared, according to documents, but privacy experts said it appeared to be permissible under federal law. That law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, generally allows hospitals to share data with business partners without telling patients, as long as the information is used “only to help the covered entity carry out its health-care functions.”
Google in this case is using the data, in part, to design new software, underpinned by advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, that zeros in on individual patients to suggest changes to their care. Staffers across Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent, have access to the patient information, documents show, including some employees of Google Brain, a research science division credited with some of the company’s biggest breakthroughs."
Google reportedly mining personal health data raises privacy concerns
AND YOU GET A BONUS CHECKING ACCOUNT FOR THEM TO SNOOP INTO?
GOOGLE TO OFFER CHECKING ACCOUNTS~
RENEWS FEARS OVER CHINESE COMMUNIST
"SOCIAL CREDIT SCORE" IN AMERICA
BY KIT DANIELS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
Google will soon offer checking accounts in a partnership with two banking institutions, news of which comes as the company faces backlash over the collection of health data on millions of Americans.
Working with Citigroup and a credit union near its headquarters, Google is expected to launch the checking account project, codenamed Cache, next year, according to the Wall Street Journal.“Big tech companies see financial services as a way to get closer to users and glean valuable data,” the outlet reported. “Apple Inc. introduced a credit card this summer.”“Amazon.com Inc. has talked to banks about offering checking accounts. Facebook Inc. is working on a digital currency it hopes will upend global payments.”Google’s data collection already made headlines this past week when the Wall Street Journal revealed Google’s partnership with Ascension, the second-largest health care system in the U.S., in an attempt to create AI software that analyzes millions of patient records.Both Google and Ascension quickly responded to the report, with Google suggesting the project is compliant with federal health law.This, however, didn’t stop the federal government from launching an investigation.“As part of the partnership, the companies plan to collect detailed personal health information from millions of Americans without their knowledge in an initiative that has been named ‘Project Nightingale,'” reported Business Insider. “According to The Journal’s report, neither patients nor doctors were notified, and at least 150 Google employees have access to the data, which includes lab results, diagnoses, and hospital records and provides detailed information on people’s health histories.”Additionally, there’s already concerns that Big Tech data collection is leading to a ChiCom-style “social credit score” system in the US in which consumers could be blocked from financial transactions or even travel by multinational corporations if they’re deemed “non-conformists.”“A parallel system [to the Chinese social credit score] is developing in the United States, in part as the result of Silicon Valley and technology-industry user policies, and in part by surveillance of social media activity by private companies,” reported Fast Company. “…What’s wrong with using new technology to encourage everyone to behave?”“The most disturbing attribute of a social credit system is not that it’s invasive, but that it’s extralegal. Crimes are punished outside the legal system, which means no presumption of innocence, no legal representation, no judge, no jury, and often no appeal. In other words, it’s an alternative legal system where the accused have fewer rights.”_______________________________________________________A new report suggests Google has been secretly collecting the personal health records of millions of Americans. As first reported in the Wall Street Journal, Google is sharing information with Ascension, a health system that includes over 2,600 hospitals and health care centers in 21 states. Dr. Tara Narula reports.
