Google, University of Chicago Beat Health Info Privacy Claims

Google LLC and the University of Chicago won dismissal of several claims asserted by a former medical center patient whose private health information allegedly was sold to the technology company to enable it to build a medical analytics tool, in a ruling by a federal court in Illinois.

Matt Dinerstein didn’t adequately plead that he suffered damages as a result of the alleged breach of the university’s contractual duty to keep his health information private, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Sept. 4.

Dinerstein also failed to plead that Google acted with the intention of ...