Comments on: Google Health: Now we know that rash wasn’t from poison ivy

By: life gets scary... - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion

life gets scary... - Irish SEO, Marketing & Webmaster Discussion — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:22:47 +0000

By: paul

paul — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:03:26 +0000

As much as I love google, I don’t think I will be adding my medical records online. As 73man says, just imagine a data leak, I’m sure sites like this would be nirvana for hackers and people who are into stealing identities.

By: 73man

73man — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:19:50 +0000

Data leak. Waiting. To. Happen.

By: Bock the Robber

Bock the Robber — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:45:18 +0000

And the higher up they are, the more information they have.

What’s to stop someone very high up in Google from passing information to someone very high up in government, or very high up in industry?

Protections in the US are meaningless after the hysteria of 9-11, and the Patriot Act seems to be all-powerful.

Sorry. Google will have to wait until they get the stats on my guts.

By: Damien

Damien — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:26:48 +0000

From what I understand Google have fantastic systems in place to prevent those with access to certain sets of data from accessing others. So the GMail peeps can’t access Health can’t access whatever. Certainly better than the Dept of Social Welfare have anyway but the worry is that a higher up employee who is ordered to do it, can do it.

By: jazzbiscuit

jazzbiscuit — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:23:22 +0000

Can a google employee working in the google health department access the records? Who monitors them? And the hypochondriac in me knows that if I ever started looking at this… I’d never stop. But the benefits of it could be immense.