Facebook sent a doctor on a mission to ask US hospitals to share patient data
Friday, 6 April 2018 () By Christina Farr Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymised data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment. The proposal never went past the planning phases and has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analyticadata leak scandal raised public concerns over how...
Friday, 6 April 2018 ()
By Christina Farr Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymised data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment. The proposal never went past the planning phases and has been put on pause after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal raised public concerns over how...