Consumer Watchdog eyeing Google Health

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Google Watch (blog), February 3, 2009

Consumer Watchdog, a privacy rights group, believes that Google supports an effort allowing the sale of electronic medical records to advertisers for the new Google Health, where users can store and access those records. However, while the group has yet to provide any evidence to support this allegation, it has appealed to Congress to tighten up its ban on the sale of medical records.

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