A whistleblower is suing Alphabet, claiming that Verily, its health tech subsidiary, breached proper protocol for handling the sensitive health data of 25,000 patients.

Ryan Sloan, a former executive with Verily, claims the company retaliated against him and that he was fired after discovering and reporting to senior management violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This legislation provides protections for patients’ health information, including limiting how the data is accessed and used.

Sloan worked for Verily’s subsidiary, Onduo, prior to taking a role with Verily. He alleges that in early 2022, he and Julia Feldman, the general counsel for Onduo, discovered that the company had improperly used patients’ protected health information for marketi

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