Hi, I was doing research on AI therapy, mostly from a data privacy standpoint, and I found four recent examples where for profit companies sold or used your sensitive medical data. Click for more details, but here is the TL;DR summary:
- BetterHelp. Sold your email to ad companies even after saying they wouldn't. Slapped with a $7.8 million for deceiving consumers.
- Meta's Pixel tracker on 33 of top 100 hospital websites, passed along medical data. Apparently Facebook itself is not subject to HIPAA!
- Blue Shield of California accidentally installed a Google tracker wrong for a year and a half. No response from Google on what they collected.
- UK's Royal Free Hospital gave data to Google's Deepmind for free w/o consulting other parts of their gov't.
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You really can’t trust any “digital doctors”. Seriously, you either talk to them in person or your medical data ends up God knows where. Even only doing it in person only reduces the risk a little.
And let’s not forget about 23andbankruptcy. DNA samples of millions of people up for grabs for the highest bidder and nobody important gives a flying fuck.