How Google is making more money
than ever off the sick and vulnerable
Posted By: Ribicon, 6/5/2021 2:41:41 PM
In 2019, Google embarked on a mysterious-sounding venture. Called Project Nightingale and carried out in secret, the tech giant teamed up with St. Louis-based Ascension, one of the largest private health-care companies in the country. Google was granted complete access to 50 million patients’ names, lab results, diagnoses and hospitalization records, as well as their home addresses and places of employment. Even more worryingly, at no time did Ascension or Google make an attempt to inform the patients or ask for their consent.(Snip) Now, hungry for even more medical data, Google has signed a multiyear deal with HCA, an American for-profit operator
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Meanwhile, Gottlieb concluded by saying that it was a mistake to only look at the virus from a scientific perspective: It also needs to be examined from a national security lens, he said.
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EcoHealth Alliance used a large amount of its funding to support research projects on the subject at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, led by Chinese “bat virus” expert Dr. Shi Zenglhi — the “Bat Lady.”
What a relief! New women's urinal
is six times quicker to use than a
traditional toilet, inventors say 36 replies
is six times quicker to use than a
traditional toilet, inventors say 36 replies
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Former President Obama criticized voting laws being passed by Republicans across the country, saying that such changes to the voting system is "rigging the game."
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That's the kind of dangerous behavior that we're going to have to push back on.
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Google cares about our privacy, electronic medical records are secure, and HIPPA is there to safeguard our personal information. Except when there's money to be made; after all, the American people exist merely to be exploited for profit.