Google was allegedly collecting millions of Americans' healthcare dataThe data pertains to Ascension patients across 21 states, who were unaware of the arrangement.
What you need to know
Google has reportedly been siphoning data from Ascension since the last year.
The data shared includes lab results, diagnoses, hospitalization records, and personal information.
Patients were not informed of the data-sharing agreement, though Google claims the initiative is fully compliant with federal law.
If Google's recent decision to acquire Fitbit has you in knots, your anxiety about the safety of your data may be justified. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the search giant has secretly been accumulating the health data of millions of Americans from 21 different states, in partnership with Ascension, all without patients' knowledge.
Ascension is the second-largest healthcare system in the U.S. and operates more than 2,600 care sites across 20 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, presumably the 21 locales the WSJ report refers to. The extent of the infor...
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Google was allegedly collecting millions of Americans' healthcare data
