{
  "id": 1484367,
  "title": "US government is pushing to gain unprecedented access to your medical records – as data protections are weakening",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/17/us-government-is-pushing-to-gain-unprecedented-access-to-your-medical",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-17T12:37:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Conversation",
    "slug": "the-conversation",
    "url": "https://theconversation.com/us-government-is-pushing-to-gain-unprecedented-access-to-your-medical-records-as-data-protections-are-weakening-287021"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Large datasets can be useful research tools, but current government efforts to gather medical records depend on policy and technology that falls short of protecting people’s privacy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}