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November 11, 2019 07:32 pm GMT

Google reportedly collecting health data, including lab results, on millions of Americans

In our latest step toward becoming a full dystopian nightmare, the Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been collecting the health data of millions of Americans without their knowledge or consent.

It's all part of Google's secret "Project Nightingale" that the company has been working on with Ascension, which the WSJ notes is the "second-largest health system" in the country.

Among the personal health data that the two behemoths are sharing are "lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records," which "amounts to a complete health history, complete with patient names and dates of birth."  Read more...

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