Amid ongoing investigations by various agencies into Facebook바카라™s alleged data breach, the social media site has come under clouds for another chilling report that said it had initiated a secret project led by a doctor to attain its users바카라™ confidential medical related data from top hospitals and other medical groups.
The was broken by CNBC channel which said 바카라śthe exploratory effort to share medical-related data was led by an interventional cardiologist called Freddy Abnousi, who describes his role on LinkedIn as "leading top-secret projects." It was under the purview of Regina Dugan, the head of Facebook's "Building 8" experiment projects group, before she left in October 2017.바카라ť
The report said Facebook had asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info intending to match it up with user data it had collected.
Responding to the report, Facebook officials said the data would have been used only for research conducted by the medical community.
바카라śThis work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data," a Facebook official told CNBC, adding, 바카라śLast month we decided that we should pause these discussions so we can focus on other important work.바카라ť
However, it has been alleged that Facebook paused the project only after the Cambridge Analytica data leak scandal raised public concerns.
Cambridge Analytica, a political research organization, had allegedly improperly got users바카라™ data from Facebook their permission, which they used for political ads including for the campaign of Donald Trump ahead of the US presidential elections.
Facebook had then issued an apology admitting its mistake and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg stating, 바카라śWe have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you.바카라ť