Facebook can’t catch a break: Medical data-sharing plan halted

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Facebook has been in contact with "several major US hospitals" as part of now-cancelled plans to combine patients' anonymized information with Facebook's own user data as part of a research project

However, according to CNBC, the plan has been "put on pause" in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica debacle.

"This work has not progressed past the planning phase, and we have not received, shared, or analyzed anyone's data," an unnamed Facebook spokesperson told CNBC.

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