Google Is Slurping Up Health Data—and It Looks Totally Legal
Google Is Slurping Up Health Data—and It Looks Totally Legal
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
November 15, 20197m 11s
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Show Notes
Last week, when Google gobbled up Fitbit in a $2.1 billion acquisition, the talk was mostly about what the company would do with all that wrist-jingling and power-walking data. It’s no secret that Google’s parent Alphabet—along with fellow giants Apple and Facebook—is on an aggressive hunt for health data. But it turns out there’s a cheaper way to get access to it: Teaming up with healthcare providers.
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