Monday, 27 July 2009
Google might host American's Medical Records under Obama's Healthcare Reform
If events shaping up in the UK are any indication of what Americans can expect under Obamas much maligned healthcare reform, then the healthcare package in congress is surely dead. It seems Google is trying to get the British Parliament to allow them to host all of the private medical information for each and every person in the United Kingdom. Ex-Minister of Parliament David Davis who wrote the above linked article says, "My party would be mad to give control of sensitive records to an internet giant notorious for ignoring privacy concerns".
In the words of human rights watchdog Privacy International, Google has “a history of ignoring privacy concerns. Every corporate announcement has some new practice involving surveillance”. It gave Google the lowest possible assessment rating: “hostile to privacy”. It was the only company of the 20 assessed to get this rating. It also said Google was leading a “race to the bottom” among internet firms, many of which did little to protect their users.
I think what people tend to forget or worse yet don't know about Google is that their initial start-up monies came from the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) and since then have been in bed with the NSA (National Security Agency) on many projects which violate individual Americans rights and privacy. I'm listing here just a few of the relevant articles:
- Ex-Agent: CIA Seed Money Helped Launch Google
- Google To Join Forces With NSA
- CIA enlists Google's help for spy work - Times Online
- Google and the CIA
- Medical Records via Google or Microsoft
Ok, so now we've established who GOOGLE the company is in bed with, and by extension why this medical record deal would ever fly in the first place, but lets see if we can find out how they got there. In the UK, if there is a Conservative government led by David Cameron, health records could be transferred to Google because it just so happens that Steve Hilton is one of David Cameron’s closest advisers.
Hilton is married to Rachel Whetstone, Google's vice-president of global communications and public affairs.
Cameron, who claims to be a Zionist, flew to San Francisco to address the Google Zeitgeist conference in 2007 at the company’s expense.
Five months ago, it was revealed that Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, was joining a UK Conservative business forum to advise on economic policy.
So could this happen in the United States? We have only to look at Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, to answer that question. It's no secret that the Google CEO Backed Obama's campaign for President or that he had hoped to be the CTO of the USA but the price wasn't right, instead he serves as an economic policy advisor to our Dear Leader just like he does in the UK. So would it surprise Americans if Big Bro in the White House gave his friend and policy mentor a little gift? oh like say, storing all American's health records on Google servers were his CIA and NSA buddies could peruse them at will? Not so far fetched if things in the UK portend the future of the US.
Stay tuned, will report back with more of the culprits in this fiasco as soon as I can dig it up.
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