Googles Baseline Study, will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more—to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be. Still, the idea that Google would know the structure of thousands of peoples bodies—down to the molecules inside their cells—raises significant issues of privacy and fairness. In the future, this kind of data would be invaluable to insurers, who are always looking to reduce their risks. And more prosaic but chilling uses, such as prior to job interviews or marriage proposals, lurk in the background. Meanwhile, the Google X Life Sciences group is developing more wearable devices that may continuously collect other data, such as heart rates, heart rhythms and oxygen levels. online.wsj/articles/google-to-collect-data-to-define-healthy-human-1406246214
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:54:27 +0000
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