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Mike Adams, editor of NaturalNews.com, has never trusted the privacy policy of Google Health. When Google Health was first launched he wrote an article titled, “Review of Google Health – Technology Achievement or Privacy Disaster?” In this article he says, “How would you like to find yourself going to a job interview one day, then suddenly finding out … your potential future employer bought your health records from [a] third party company that purchased them from Google? Although this is certainly not the intention of present-day Google, it remains a disconcerting possibility that's actually written right into Google's own privacy policy.” Google Health was eventually shut down in 2011 and in an official blog post titled, “An Update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter,” Google said the following statement on why it was shut down, “we’ve observed that Google Health is not having the broad impact that we hoped it would. There has been adoption among certain groups of users like tech-savvy patients and their caregivers, and more recently fitness and wellness enthusiasts. But we haven’t found a way to translate that limited usage into widespread adoption in the daily health routines of millions of people.” I believe that it might have not taken to everyone because of the speculation about their privacy policies.

“Review of Google Health – Technology Achievement or Privacy Disaster?” naturalnews.com. Natural News Network, 20 May 2008. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.

“An Update on Google Health and Google PowerMeter.” googleblog.blogspot.com. Google, 15 July 2011. Web. 27 Jan. 2015.