Previous plans for a health app were shelved in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed that Facebook had shared the personal data of millions of users with a U.K.-based political consulting firm.
Facebook is getting into the health care game.
For now, Facebook Preventative Health is keeping it simple and relatively unthreatening. Users must opt into the feature and in return they get push notifications suggesting they engage in various preventative health measures, such as an annual physical or a flu shot.
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