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Google’s Quest to Digitize Troops’ Tissue Samples
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#Google had a confidential plan to turn the collection—slivers of skin, #tumor biopsies & slices of organs from #veterans—into an immense archive that could help create tools to aid the diagnosis & treatment of #cancer & other #diseases. And it would seek first, exclusive dibs to do so.

“The chief concern,” Google’s liaison in the #military warned, “is keeping this out of the press.”

#privacy #ethics #DOD #Health
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-human-tissue-jpc-military?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post