Google almost made 100,000 chest X-rays public — until it realized personal data could be exposed – Technology vs Humanity: the coming clash of man and machine

(Jeff Chiu/AP)November 15, 2019 at 9:00 AM ESTTwo days before Google was set to publicly post more than 100,000 images of human chest X-rays, the tech giant got a call from the National Institutes of Health, which had provided the images: Some of them still contained details that could be used to id Read full Article

Author: Gerd Leonhard

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