The records being put into the cloud which already puts them at risk of hacking exposure but to google is collecting these records to build future Business Products how does that fit into hipaa laws. Well it does fit in the hipper laws and whats really interesting about this situation is the u. S. Government is investigating them but its a health and Human Services Civil Rights Division which is investigating them specifically to determine whether this information will be used to make insurance to terminations that is when you apply for an insurance policy will something that occurred in your background influence that decision now in my opinion what theyre building is what i call a life style index which is where they take your medical records and integrate it with all the other information google has ever collected upon you and determine whether youre a good Insurance Risk or not which is really going beyond what that information was meant for so not only is there a civil rights compo
Products how does that fit into hipaa laws. Well it does fit in the hipper laws and whats really interesting about this situation is the u. S. Government is investigating them but its a health and Human Services Civil Rights Division which is investigating them specifically to determine whether this information will be used to make insurance to terminations that is when you apply for an insurance policy will something that occurred in your background influence that decision now in my opinion what theyre building is what i call a life style index which is where they take your medical records and integrate it with all the other information google has ever collected upon you and determine whether youre a good Insurance Risk or not which is really going beyond what that information was meant for so not only is there a civil rights component to it but theres also a question of did it violate hipaa i say yes no one knew about this situation this project nightingale until a whistleblower with
Advanced Artificial Intelligence which will be used to prescribe treatment to doctors and for patients and remember this that over the past year no doctors or patients were told that their information was being handed over to google we have a lot to get to today so joining us here in the studio is the host of the news with Rick Sanchez Rick sanchez guy they have you here by the way hes also the founder of a managing care company in south florida that was recently listed as the Fastest Growing Health Care Company in america by magazine and from new york global regulatory attorney Myles Edwards and miles i want to actually begin with you here because the Regulatory Agency looking into this deal is considering whether or not hipaa laws have been broken now we know this that the feds have required that medical records be digitized but that is not whats happening here in fact all the records that google is obtaining are already digitized so one you have the issue of the records being put in
Was found carrying the bodies of 39 people investigators now saying thanks dont know where the victims came from and are asking members of the u. K. s Vietnamese Community for help. Im rebecca it has welcome to the program germanys foreign minister heiko mosque has called for a lasting cease fire in Northern Syria after talks in ankara and his turkish counterpart have a scholer come commented on proposals to limit the conflict on syrias border. To greeting appeared friendly enough but the tensions were evident even before German Foreign minister heikal mass arrived in ankara his turkish counterpart had responded to german criticism in a tweet seeing anyone who lectures turkey has to expect an appropriate response script through tional. Its there obviously i think serious differences between us. But partners and allies should be able to talk to one another in such a situation. And not talk about each other. The Turkish Foreign minister maintains that germany does not understand the secu
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. The gentleman from colorado is recognized for five minutes. The other coloradan. Thank you for repeating today. Thanks for your testimony today. I just want to lock one thing down where i i heard to make answers from your earlier. Ms. Maloney was kind of going through a list of regulators, and wanted to know if you would wait for their approval, and she went to a whole laundry list of them and your answer was, for the parts that apply yes, yes,e going to go and seek their approval. Her used the word seek their approval. Other times you said we will get their approval. So just from facebooks standpoint, are you willing to seek the approval or are you going to wait for the approval before anything is launched . Congressman, it is the latter. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify that. We are not going to launch anything until we get the approval. I also, if its okay, want to