Google’s secret ‘Project Nightingale’ gathers personal health data on millions of Americans

Google is teaming with one of the country's largest health-care systems on a secret project to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The data involved in Project Nightingale includes lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, complete with patient names and dates of birth. Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter. There's a lot of money to be made in healthcare, and it was only a matter of time before creepy technology companies like Google would want a piece of this pie - through massive amounts of personal information. Technically, this is all above board, though. It's fully within federal regulations and laws, so this practice is unlikely to stop.