Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
Found on CNBC on Saturday, 07 April 2018
Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized 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.
It also has a growing "Facebook health" team based in New York that is pitching pharmaceutical companies to invest its ample ad budget into Facebook by targeting users who "liked" a health advocacy page, or fits a certain demographic profile.
With more and more nasty details emerging, it would be a good idea to have a closer look at the secret projects Facebook as running behind the curtains as this is probably just the tip of the iceberg.