Tell Congress: Protect Our Health Data!

Google is partnering with Ascension, which operates 150 hospitals in 20 states, and could eventually upload all patient data to their cloud computing platform, according to news reports. Given Google’s breaches of patient privacy in the past, this could be a disaster.

Write to Congress and the FTC, telling them to protect our health data!

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Please protect our health data

Dear [Decision Maker],

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Google is partnering with Ascension, which operates 150 hospitals in 20 states, and could eventually upload all patient data to their cloud computing platform, according to news reports. Given Google's breaches of patient privacy in the past, this could be a disaster.

Google's record on maintaining the privacy of our data is atrocious. The company was fined $170 million by the FTC for collecting children's personal information on YouTube and using it to target them with ads. More to the point, Google and the University of Chicago are currently being sued in a potential class action lawsuit for allegedly sharing patient data without first stripping sensitive information such as doctor's notes and identifiable date stamps. In 2017, Google was on the verge of publicly posting more than 100,000 images of chest X-rays with personal information still on the images. It took a last-minute warning from the National Institutes of Health, who had provided the images, to cancel the project.

Google will have a frightening amount of our consumer and health data. The incentives for abuse are clear-- leveraging this data to make their other investments, especially in the drug sector, more profitable!

Clearly, tech companies see a tremendous opportunity to monetize our health data.  We cannot allow this to happen. Please act now to protect this sensitive information.

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