Facebook, Google Need to Win Public Trust Handling Health Data

Facebook Inc., Google Inc., and other technology giants face an uphill battle convincing patients their online health products will keep their private information secure and won’t yield targeted ads, a former health privacy chief said.

“There have been so many privacy issues that have been highlighted around large tech companies collecting and using data,” Deven McGraw chief regulatory officer of Ciitizen Corp., said in an Oct. 30 interview. “For all the benefits that they want to bring to health care, they’ve got a challenge to get the public to trust that they’re going to ...