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Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored-data-sharing-agreement-with-hospitals.html
• Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients.

• The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, as well as social and economic factors gleaned from Facebook.

• Facebook said the project is on hiatus so it can focus on "other important work, including doing a better job of protecting people's data."