Google launches Android app to collect data for health research

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Google has launched a new app that lets people participate in medical research using only their smartphones.

The company has been holding mock scenarios, test runs and test shipments to all 50 states since March, to be ready once the FDA authorizes the vaccine.has launched a new app that lets people participate in medical research using only their smartphones.

Because the app deals with sensitive data, Google said it's going above and beyond to ensure the data is secure. All participant data is encrypted and anonymized, and, in certain circumstances, participant data can be transmitted to researchers as an aggregate to further protect participants' privacy.

MORE: House Democrats raise new questions about whether senior CDC officials tried to hide interference in the agency's coronavirus response People participating in the respiratory health study can contribute data by completing weekly surveys in the app -- self-reporting symptoms, mask-wearing and social distancing practices, COVID-19 or flu test results -- and by allowing the app to collect mobility data -- did that individual leave their home, for instance.

 

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I wish they’d do that for real votes!

Google doesn't collect anything, the app only connects you with directly with hospitals and medical organizations doing the studies.

Google is the worst. No thank you.

“No sinister implications here!” - Google programmer with sinister implications.

lmao if you are reading this please, for the love of god do not use this or let your family or friends

Hello, Big Brother

Lol yup follow me everywhere total BS like your news organization

cmarinucci google collecting health information... yeah. no.

“collecting basic information from thousands of everyday people” ....ooh thus sounds fun

Perfect, more big tech spying. Just what I wanted for Christmas.

Let the enlighten us the more. Please I also need an app for blocking any porn or sex contents from my phone in any source or view?

Bet.

Mmmm... hmmm.

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