Whistleblower Sounds Alarm About Google's Project Nightingale

Google is partnering with Ascension, one of the country’s largest health care systems, to collect and store patients’ personal data through a secret transfer called Project Nightingale.

A whistleblower working on the project warns that Google may use it for artificial intelligence and could soon sell the data to third parties.

Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks about that and Google’s plan to launch checking accounts with Roben Farzad (@robenfarzad), host of Public Radio’s “Full Disclosure.”

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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