Google: Death Unsolved but Health of Interest
December 13, 2018
By now, data collection has become either a fact of life for many, or a daily battle for others. One major fork in the road for users has become Google’s efforts to acquire data via healthcare. It’s a confusing dive that was made clearer by a recent TechRadar Pro story, “DeepMind’s Big Betrayal? Coming to Terms with Data-Driven Healthcare.”
According to the story:
“By moving DeepMind Health’s Stream team into the main arm of the organization – its parent company Google – concerns were raised over its commitment to patient data privacy. This came with assertions from the organization in 2016 that the patient data would never be used or connected with Google accounts and products.”
Of course, Google denies that they will merge the two datasets. However, Wired brought up some troubling history to the contrary. Namely, the company’s 2008 purchase of DoubleClick, and it’s promise then not to merge data…which, it did.
We’re monitoring Google’s progress on solving death.
Patrick Roland, December 13, 2018
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