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Thursday 14 November 2019

In this Aug. 16, 2018, file photo, the new Fitbit Charge 3 fitness
trackers with sport bands are displayed in New York.
This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif.
Privacy, consumer Google's health care ambitions

groups seek to block now involve patient data

Google-Fitbit deal

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — with federal health-privacy using data to help manage
Google announced a part- law. Unlike most of the data care and keep patients
NEW YORK (AP) — Nine They also worry it’ll add to
privacy, social justice and Google’s store of consum- nership with a large U.S. Google collects on individ- healthy. That might mean
health care system aimed uals, health data is strictly relatively simple things like
consumer groups are call- er data. Health information
ing for the U.S. government is of particular concern. at modernizing its informa- regulated by the federal tracking whether some-
tion system and providing government.
one refills a prescription or
to block Google’s $2.1 bil- Google has hired health
lion acquisition of fitness- care executives, hinting at new tools for doctors, in the Google is providing cloud something more complex
tech giant's latest foray into computing services to As-
like spotting a worsening
gadget maker Fitbit, citing a health-data business to
antitrust and privacy con- come. the health industry. cension, which operates medical condition and ad-
Announcement of its ar-
health centers in 21 states, dressing it before the pa-
cerns. Politicians and regulators
They say in a Wednes- have been scrutinizing rangement with the Cath- mostly across the South tient winds up in the hospi-
tal.
olic health care system and Midwest. It is also test-
day letter to the Federal Google and other Silicon
Trade Commission that Valley companies for how Ascension followed a Wall ing the use of artificial intel- Health care systems are
Street Journal report on ligence to examine health allowed to share patient
the deal would consoli- they use customer data
date Google’s dominance and leverage their size to Monday that Google had records and find patterns information with business
that Google says might partners so long as the
access to thousands of pa-
over internet services like thwart competitors.
search, advertising and Google didn’t immediately tient health records without help doctors and other partners agree to safe-
doctors' knowledge.
providers.
guard the information and
smartphone operating sys- respond to a request for
tems. comment.q Both companies stressed Health care providers are use it only in the way it was
that their deal is compliant increasingly interested in intended.q
Facebook says it removed
3.2B fake accounts in 6 months

counts were caught before in detection. detects material posted
they had a chance to be- In addition, Facebook said by non-ISIS or al-Qaida ex-
come “active” users of the it removed 11.4 million in- tremist groups at a lower
social network, so they are stances of hate speech rate than those two organi-
not counted in the user fig- during the period, up from zations.
ures the company reports 7.5 million in the previous six The report is Facebook’s
regularly. Facebook esti- months. The company says fourth on standards en-
mates that about 5% of its it is beginning to remove forcement and the first to
2.45 billion user accounts hate speech proactively, include data from Insta-
are fake. the way it does with some gram in areas such as child
In this Oct. 29, 2019, file photo, a Facebook app is shown on a The company said in a re- extremist content, child-ex- nudity, illicit firearm and
smartphone in Miami. Facebook said Wednesday, Nov. 13, that
it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts from its service from April port Wednesday that it also ploitation and other mate- drug sales, and terrorist pro-
to September, up slightly from 3 billion in the previous six month. removed 18.5 million in- rial. paganda.
Associated Press stances of child nudity and Facebook expanded the The company said it re-
sexual exploitation from its data it shares on its removal moved 1.3 million instances
By BARBARA ORTUTAY from its service from April to main platform in the April- of terrorist propaganda. Its of child nudity and child
AP Technology Writer September, up slightly from September period, up from earlier reports only includ- sexual exploitation from Ins-
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 3 billion in the previous six 13 million in the previous six ed data on al-Qaida, ISIS tagram during the reported
Facebook says it removed months. months. It says the increase and their affiliates. The lat- period, much of it before
3.2 billion fake accounts Nearly all of the bogus ac- was due to improvements est report shows Facebook people saw it.q