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Facebook wanted users’ medical data for a research project

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CNBC reports today that Facebook was recently designing a research project that would collect users Facebook data and medical information in order to develop insights into how social data could inform treatment development and patient care. The project has since been halted, but the company had approached a number of health organizations including Stanford Medical School and the American College of Cardiology.
The plan was to use anonymized data from both Facebook and healthca….
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