Facebook vows strict privacy safeguards as it rolls out preventive-health tool
The success of Facebook's preventive-health tool may depend on whether it can regain consumers’ trust amid ongoing controversy around privacy and sharing of user data.
LAS VEGAS — Facebook on Monday took a step into preventive medicine, rolling out a new tool to encourage users to get flu shots as well as appropriate cancer screenings and heart health tests. But the success of the new product may depend on whether the social media giant can regain consumers’ trust.
The company is asking people to use its site to make and record decisions about their health care — such as logging completion of a cholesterol test — at a time when it is trying
