Larry Page Wants To Open Up Anonymous Medical Records For All Researchers To Use
Larry Page Wants To Open Up Anonymous Medical Records For
All Researchers To Use
March 19, 2014 | 6:18 PM
By ARIEL SCHWARTZ
The Google founder doesn't want the government looking at
your data, but there are some areas where he thinks the more open we are, the
better.
Larry Page, co-founder and CEO of Google, is not a fan of
the US government's privacy intrusions. "For me, it's tremendously
disappointing that the government secretly did all this stuff and didn't tell
us," he told Charlie Rose during an interview on the TED stage this week.
"I don't think we can have a democracy if we have to protect you and your
users from the government."
Not that Page is against open data. As the sufferer of a
rare condition that has caused him to lose his voice, he's open to the
opportunities that medical data can offer.
"Wouldn't it be amazing to have anonymous medical
records available to all research doctors?" he asked. Page also suggested
that patients could be notified whenever a doctor looks at their record. As we
noted in our list of the world-changing ideas for 2014, doctors are already
thinking about the possibility of transferring data from wearable health
sensors into electronic medical records, de-identifying it, and making it
public.
Page believes that data--like location data from
phones--can also be useful in our daily online lives, if it comes with the
proper protections. "We’re excited about incognito mode in Chrome, and
doing that in more ways. But just giving people more choice and awareness of
what’s going on," he said.
The Google co-founder also discussed some of the
big-picture projects that his company is working on, including self-driving
cars and balloons that offer Internet access in remote areas. His belief: a
mesh of these balloons can cover the entire planet, offering Internet access to
all.
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