Posted on 04/06/2018 6:11:20 AM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients.
The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, as well as social and economic factors gleaned from Facebook.
Facebook said the project is on hiatus so it can focus on "other important work, including doing a better job of protecting people's data."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
“Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients. “
Right-o.
Trump supporter? No heart valve replacement for you!
How is this not a HIPAA violation?
Facebook asking isn’t a crime. The hospital if they would have complied with the request blindly would be the ones in deep do do. But hey, it’s pile on FB time...
This is disgusting! Any Laws broken? Facebook or Hospital??
“Facebook asking isn’t a crime.”
Would you feel the same way if an oil company asked local authorities if it would be OK for them to violate the clean water act and dump pollutants into a public waterway?
What about a food company that asked if it would be OK if they just fudged those dairy or meat product expiration dates a month or so later.
The fact that a fortune 100 company even ASKED if they could get this data might subject them to some sort of legal action. This wasn’t joe blow asking the tech to tell him if his girlfriend had been treated for an STD.
And the admitted goal was to match medical information with individual NON-anomyized persons. Ie, serious HIPAA violation.
I’m honestly shocked the company lawyers haven’t all committed seppuku over this.
suckerburg is a f*cking liar and takes us for fools. He thinks we believe his crap.
Sweet! I think we are about to see Mark Zuckerberg begin his long, hard fall.....I hope!
This is why you should lie to your doctor with a clear conscience when he starts asking you inappropriate questions. Such as:
Doc: Do you have any firearms at your home?
Jamesp81: No
He’s a doctor not the Federal Bureau of Idiots. I don’t have to tell him the truth.
Your examples/comparisons in 1 & 2 are weak arguments. In both cases, if they were granted permission to doing the acts you described, then guilt would be on both parties. If the party being asked said/says No, and the Oil Company/Food company doesn’t do these acts, then what crime has been committed? But if they are going to break the law, they wouldn’t ask for permission.
On Number 3, while the company should know better and from a PR perspective, what they attempted is bad. Crime? More of a ethics issue then crime. After all, they didn’t get the info they sought. Just my opinion.
If you read the small print when you fill out the forms at a doc office....you give PERMISSION for anonymous research (if you ok it)
So you classify it as a victimless crime, uh, lapse of ethics?
There are countless instances of charges brought against unsuccessful attempts at crimes against persons or property. Ever heard of ABSCAM? How about attempted murder for hire, where one declines the job offer and reports the attempt to the police? Recent news offers some spectacular events of epic criminal attempts foiled by the would be perps stupidity or the intervention of citizens or law enforcement resulting in charges being brought.
sjm_888, no need to reply as your response would be as meaningless as your opinion.
signing off.
Most companies, particularly publically traded ones, have pretty stiff ethics regulations.
They might actually be open to serious tort here.
Especially if it was an executive who did the asking.
Was I talking to you?
Translation - figure out ways to sell people's data without all the uproar.
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