‘You couldn’t make this up!’: Furious backlash after it emerges that Google has secretly amassed healthcare data on millions of people. If there’s no HIPAA violation then why the big cover-up? Lawsuits anyone?
The data includes names, dates of birth, lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records on ‘tens of millions of patients’, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first exposed the story.
Neither doctors nor patients were informed that the data-gathering was taking place or given the chance to opt-out.
