Comment by Tireings

1 day ago

I agree generally but I hope we make as much real anonymous health data available for research.

Google is certified and runs the biggest medical database with (I believe without googling this) the biggest hospital operator in the USA.

I have a condition which is rare enough that it doesn't get enough funding and data is missing

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croes  1 day ago

Didn’t they already show that these data can’t really be anonymized if it should still be useful?

ohgr  1 day ago

I would leave that in the hands of professionals though.

Which is evidentially not this lot. Not even remotely.

mschuster91  1 day ago

> Google is certified

That doesn't matter _at all_ when the government comes knocking at Google's door - in the best case, they have a subpoena that can at least be appealed afterwards, in the worst case it's DOGE teens backed by a bunch of heavily armed guys in camouflage.

  • ohgr  1 day ago

    Indeed. No data is safe or secure in such environments.

    This has become an issue big enough that the US company I work for is actually removing data from US cloud providers to make it harder to get at. The European divisions have started data sovereignty projects because it's now a principal risk.

    I'm out of the cloud as well.