Privacy no more: Google, which censors conservative voices, now mining tens of millions of health records without your permission

Like the other tech giants, Google has a very bad attitude towards conservative voices and, as studies have shown, uses its massive market domination as a search engine and media company to silence anyone with whom its Left-wing managers disagree.

Now, the tech behemoth will have additional ‘leverage’ over conservatives and other Americans with whom the company disagrees politically, socially, even culturally: Complete control over medical privacy (or lack thereof).

“Google now has the ability to view or analyze tens of millions of patient health records in at least three-quarters of U.S. states, and won’t say what they’re doing with the data except that they ‘want to be helpful,’” tweeted conservative writer Rachel Bovard, including a story from The Wall Street Journal providing the details.

The story notes that about a year ago, Google’s former top executive Eric Schmidt pitched the company’s cloud storage technology to health data company Cerner Corp. The deal included about $250 million in discounts and incentives, according to people who are familiar with the deal. But:

Google had a bigger goal in pushing for the deal than dollars and cents: a way to expand its effort to collect, analyze and aggregate health data on millions of Americans. Google representatives were vague in answering questions about how Cerner’s data would be used, making the health-care company’s executives wary, the people say. Eventually, Cerner struck a storage deal with Amazon.com Inc. instead.

Some people were incredulous and actually accused the WSJ of getting its reporting wrong. But Bovard set them straight.

“Let’s be clear that this is not ‘confused reporting.’ Google is not merely storing the data. Per their own admission, they are storing, collecting, and analyzing non-anonymized, personal health data. We are way, way beyond cloud service agreements, people,” Bovard said in a separate tweet.

Let’s be clear that this is not “confused reporting.” Google is not merely storing the data. Per their own admission, they are storing, collecting, and analyzing non-anonymized, personal health data. We are way, way beyond cloud service agreements, people. https://t.co/RJ4aVlRxz1

— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) January 13, 2020

‘We don’t do anything with Google’

The failed effort with Cerner did not quell Google’s enthusiasm for health data. Since then, the WSJ reported, Google has managed to land contracts with some of the country’s biggest hospital systems and “most-renowned” healthcare providers.

Within the course of a couple years, Google has managed to gain the ability to view and “analyze” tens of millions of healthcare records in three-quarters of U.S. states (now you know why we have always opposed ‘electronic medical records, for just this reason, among others — hackers come to mind).

And of course, the tech giant isn’t finished — nor will it be until it can access the medical records of every single American.

So they can be ‘analyzed.’

Now, what would Google want with so much health information? There are all