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Dr. Google? Healthcare venture collecting data on millions of patients raises privacy concerns – Boom Bust Tech giant Google has partnered with hospital system Ascension to collect detailed personal health information from millions of Americans without their knowledge, in an initiative that has been named "Project Nightingale." RT’s Boom Bust talks to Dr John Dombrowski of the Washington Pain Center about the privacy concerns surrounding the partnership. “This data has tremendous value, multi-million-dollars. Who is going to get the benefit of that?” he says, adding that “Information is power and that creates a lot of money.” //www.youtube.com/embed/E_L3BkSWbLs Dombrowski suggests that maybe this inform...

Pyongyang warns of retaliation against S. Korea-US military drills Pyongyang threatened on Wednesday to retaliate if the United States goes ahead with scheduled military drills with South Korea, ramping up pressure on Washington to change course as a year-end North Korean deadline for U.S. flexibility approaches. North Korea’s statement came even though Washington said last week that the joint aerial exercise planned for next month would be reduced in scope from previous drills, Reuters reports. “It is self-defense rights” to retaliate against any move which threatens its sovereignty and security, according to a statement from North Korea’s State Affairs Commission. It is rare for the Commission, the supreme governing body chaired by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, to release...