Last year, before the Covid-19 outbreak, ‘Google and one of the largest health-care networks in the United States are embroiled in a data-privacy controversy that researchers fear could jeopardise public trust in data-sharing practices and, potentially, academic studies.
’At issue is a project dubbed Nightingale that gives Google access to the health-care information, including names and other identifiable data, of tens of millions of people without their knowledge. The people were treated at facilities run by the health network Ascension, which is based in St Louis, Missouri.’
Read here (Nature, November 19, 2019)
