{"id":58949,"date":"2026-01-08T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/openais-chatgpt-health-push-raises-questions-about-data-security\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:56:27","slug":"openais-chatgpt-health-push-raises-questions-about-data-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/openais-chatgpt-health-push-raises-questions-about-data-security\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT Health Push Raises Questions About Data Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h4 color=\"#333\">In brief<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>OpenAI says ChatGPT Health will roll out to select users starting this week, with broader access planned in the coming weeks.<\/li>\n<li>The feature stores health conversations separately from other chats and does not use them to train OpenAI\u2019s models.<\/li>\n<li>Privacy advocates warn that health data shared with AI tools often falls outside U.S. medical privacy laws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, OpenAI announced a new feature in ChatGPT, allowing users to connect medical records and wellness data, raising concerns among some experts and advocacy groups over the use of personal data.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco, California-based AI giant <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/introducing-chatgpt-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow external\">said<\/a> the tool, dubbed ChatGPT Health, developed with physicians, is designed to support care rather than diagnose or treat ailments. The company is positioning it as a way to help users better understand their health.<\/p>\n<p>For many users, ChatGPT has already become the go-to platform for <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/200814\/ai-longevity-summit-medicine-healthcare-peter-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questions<\/a> about medical care and mental health.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI told <i>Decrypt <\/i>that ChatGPT Health only shares general, \u201cfactual health information\u201d and does not provide \u201cpersonalized or unsafe medical advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For higher-risk questions, it will provide high-level information, flag potential risks, and encourage people to talk with a pharmacist or healthcare provider who knows their specific situation.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows shortly after the company reported in October that more than <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/346513\/openai-reveals-1-million-chatgpt-users-discuss-suicide-weekly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1 million<\/a> users discuss suicide with the chatbot each week. That amounted to roughly 0.15% of all ChatGPT users at the time.<\/p>\n<p>While those figures represent a relatively small share of the overall user population, most will need to address security and data privacy concerns, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when companies claim to have privacy safeguards, consumers often lack meaningful consent, transparency, or control over how their data is used, retained, or repurposed,\u201d Public Citizen\u2019s big-tech accountability advocate J.B. Branch told <i>Decrypt. <\/i>\u201cHealth data is uniquely sensitive, and without clear legal limits and enforceable oversight, self-policed safeguards are simply not enough to protect people from misuse, re-identification, or downstream harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said in its statement that health data in ChatGPT Health is encrypted by default, stored separately from other chats, and not used to train its foundation models.<\/p>\n<p>According to Center for Democracy and Technology senior policy counsel Andrew Crawford, many users mistakenly assume health data is protected based on its sensitivity, rather than on who holds it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your health data is held by your doctor or your insurance company, the HIPAA privacy rules apply,\u201d Crawford told <i>Decrypt<\/i>. \u201cThe same is not true for non-HIPAA-covered entities, like developers of health apps, wearable health trackers, or AI companies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crawford said the launch of ChatGPT Health also underscores how the burden of responsibility falls on consumers in the absence of a comprehensive federal privacy law governing health data held by technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that our current federal laws and regulations place that burden on individual consumers to analyze whether they\u2019re comfortable with how the technology they use every day handles and shares their data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI said ChatGPT Health will roll out first to a small group of users.<\/p>\n<p>The waitlist is open to ChatGPT users outside the European Union and the UK, with broader access planned in the coming weeks on web and iOS. OpenAI\u2019s announcement did not mention Google or Android devices.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>Generally Intelligent Newsletter<\/h3>\n<p>A weekly AI journey narrated by Gen, a generative AI model.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief OpenAI says ChatGPT Health will roll out to select users starting this week, with broader access planned in [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":58951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tien-dien-tu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}