Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones
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For instance, if Facebook could determine that an elderly patient doesn't have many nearby close friends or much community support, the health system might decide to send over a nurse to check in after a major surgery.
Facebook proposed to obscure personally identifiable information, such as names, in the data being shared by both sides.
The former does not seem to follow from the latter. How is the (ostensibly) desirable improvement in care for people without a support network of family or friends possible if all the data is anonymized? I'm pretty sure the intended use would require sharing non-anonymized data, at least once the feasibility research is finished.
The issue of patient consent did not come up in the early discussions, one of the people said.
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@hardwaregeek Yup. Who gives a shit about HIPAA, amirite?
Oh, it's quelle surprise, by the way. Surprise
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@lolwhat Also, apparently the data is anonymized by replacing the PII with a hash of it. Both/all parties involved hash the same PII to get the same hash so that the info from one dataset can be matched with the corresponding info from the other dataset. The data can be trivially deanonymized by simply looking for the data record that produces the desired hash.
It could work, if the sharing was one-way; Facebook gives the medical providers access to the patients' profile info without ever seeing the medical info, but somehow I don't think that's what they have in mind. And if that's all the sharing, then Facebook doesn't even need to be involved; patients who consent could simply friend the provider and they'd have access to the patients' profiles.
I assume there's more to it than that; that they're developing an application to analyze the profiles+medical info to identify the target patients. Maybe this could run entirely in the providers' offices. However, I don't trust that any data that is ever visible to Facebook, during development or whenever, won't be deanonymized and exploited to the fullest extent possible.
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@lolwhat said in Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones:
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Blame Google translate. It didn't complain when I checked it.
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I was just reading a Forbes article on this company last night and now I get this ad:
And by a Forbes article, I mean the one in the dead tree printed magazine.
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@Gurth said in Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones:
They’re kind of easy to eavesdrop on by anyone within line of sight. May I suggest this instead:
Eh, that can be line of sight snooped by photographing the string at a high enough framerate, 40Khz ought to be a good start.
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@boomzilla said in Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones:
And by a Forbes article, I mean the one in the dead tree printed magazine.
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