Facebook has called off talks with hospitals after asking for patient medical data amid concerns surrounding the company's handling of user data.
The health research project for Facebook's secretive Building 8 department has been put on hold after Facebook sent a doctor to ask several US hospitals if they would share patient data.
Facebook was planning to combine the anonymised medical data with its own to try and improve treatment and care.
Facebook has reined in some of its new products and experiments while it conducts a review of its user data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which saw the political consultants use data from Facebook that had been unwittingly...