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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
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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
Google’s Quest to Digitize Valuable Military Tissue Samples
Staff at the DOD’s Joint Pathology Center have thwarted Google’s efforts to digitize priceless data from veterans’ tissue samples. The tech giant might win anyway.ProPublica
