The project involves the data of patients in 21 states, and allows Google employees to mine that information for profit.

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You may not know it, but Google may have all of your private, detailed health information, and is using it to profit… you know… for your own good.

Working with one of the largest healthcare systems, the secret projected has collected data on tens of millions of patients in 21 states.

The Wall Street Journal reported:

The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients’ medical data.

Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.

Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, a Catholic chain of 2,600…