https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html



I think this could work and be beneficial, but only if the patient authorized consent themselves that the hospital can view their facebook data.
What are your thoughts?
If it's an automatic process that facebook was trying to do without the user knowing, then that's very bad imo

This post was edited by JohnMiller92 on Apr 6 2018 04:22am

Just no. Let Facebook stay in the business of emotional teenage drama leave Healthcare alone.

All these attempts are always attempts at human experimentation without getting an Institutional review board involved. It always create a bunch of extra work with no tangible results.

This isn't new. Its just Facebook instead of Johnson & Johnson trying to scam.

Drug reps are just awful.

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 6 2018 04:59am

87 000 000 guinea pigs

Sounds like he actually tried it
I expect congress to absolutely roll him on this

I dont think lack of advertisement is a problem in the healthcare market. Very clear breach of HIPAA

Plus you’d have to wonder how much data they gathered once you start getting pill ads lol

So the way this works is that Facebook gets a bunch of anonymous data and can make some pretty smart guesses about people based on their posting habits since everyone posts how their shits look etc. Based off of some browser data, click history, and post content, Facebook can actually guess your interests and a whole lot more.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/#2a7c460c6668

Very famously, this approach was used to send targeted advertisement to Facebook users on behalf of the Trump campaign (which is a HUGE part of his victory; he used some really cool statistics and advertisement approaches that no candidate before him had used).

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-359-harvey-weinstein-a-stock-market-for-sneakers-trump-s-data-mining-the-curious-incident-more-1.4348278/data-mining-firm-behind-trump-election-built-psychological-profiles-of-nearly-every-american-voter-1.4348283

So Facebook is trying to figure out if they can diagnose people from their posts/likes/shares/etc. It's an interesting puzzle, and I think it's a cool thing to think about. The way this would manifest is that Facebook would start running adds suggesting medication or things like "Upset stomach? Fever? You could have X! Try Y!" Pretty harmless stuff, since it's all anonymous (and it is, because it doesn't have to have user-side information attached to it to be effective).

You probably think snowdens a criminal

How this can come anywhere near HIPAA-compliance, I don't know.

will this be a new hype? lilke.. common stuff on tv news? to entertain the hord of sheeps? x/