How Google's Alphabet Reorg Could Affect Its Health Data
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As speculation swirls about Google’s restructuring under its new Alphabet umbrella, one thing seems like a safe bet: The company may have made it more difficult to spread its wealth of data from entity to entity. Privacy watchers suggest that outcome may have been intended, particularly when involving health data.
Google has kept well-known web services like Gmail, Google Search and YouTube in the reorganization, allowing data sharing among them to remain intact, but separated businesses such as X, which pursues futuristic innovations like driverless cars and Glass, into separate Google siblings within Alphabet. The connected home company, Nest, is another new division of Alphabet, broken out from Google.
Of special interest to observers clued into privacy issues, however, were the breakouts Life Sciences, the health research operation, and Calico, which conducts research aiming to slow the aging process.
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