When Big Tech targets Healthcare
Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon (GAFAM) are replacing national structures by mining their users’ personal data. Is health the next sector facing Uberization?
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)Documentary Genre en anglaisInvestigationDirected by David Carr-BrownEditingFrançoise TubautCinematographyDavid Carr-Brown, Gérard Lafont, Benoît Finck, Jonathon Young, Dane ChristensenSoundDiego MartinezOriginal score Maudite DanceNarrationDamien BoisseauIn association with CNC, Procirep, Angoa-AgicoaBroadcasted by ARTE FranceYear2022Duration52min
Through artificial intelligence and their boundless capacity for innovation, they have inserted themselves into a failing health care sector, which they see as just the ultimate market to conquer.
Google sorts patients in British emergency rooms. Apple takes the world’s pulse, and has promised to make improving public health “its greatest contribution to mankind.” Facebook has its own Zuckerberg Hospital and shares its users’ “secret medical information” with the pharmaceutical industry. As for Amazon, Jeff Bezos’s company has started delivering medicine, and is entering the medical-insurance market.
Is our health the next sector facing Uberization? Will nations be able to protect their citizens from the maneuvers of the Big Four?
press coverage
A fascinating documentary about the ambitions of web giants in the medical sector.
Cnews.fr
How can we reconcile new technologies and medical ethics? This is the major question posed by this fascinating investigation.
La Vie
A rigorous documentary.
Télérama
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