Google Should Not Be Allowed to Secretly Collect Private Medical Data

These records from the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS) apparently include such details as a person’s full name, HIV status, results of pathology and radiology tests, past drug overdoses, and logs of their hospital stays, including who visited them and when. NHS has given assurances of “anonymity” for these data, but that offers little comfort. In fact, the agreement states that “pseudonimisation is not required,” and besides, even anonymized data may be used to reveal private information.