Angry nurses want Mark Zuckerberg’s name removed from a San Francisco hospital
Nurses at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are concerned about Facebook’s privacy practices and worried that patients will associate the hospital with the social-networking company’s recent scandals
By Rob Price
With Facebook under scrutiny for its privacy practices, some nurses in San Francisco want to remove the name of the company’s founder from a local public hospital.
The nurses, many of whom work for the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital And Trauma Center — commonly referred to as just the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital — worry that patients will associate it with the social network and its recent scandal involving the leak of data to Cambridge Analytica. They’re also concerned about being connected with Zuckerberg and Facebook in light of some of the company’s ethically questionable practices in the past.
On Saturday, a small group of nurses staged a protest outside the hospital, taping over the word “Zuckerberg” on a sign.
“To give the name away to someone who has caused a great deal of harm in the world is entirely inappropriate,” nurse Sasha Cuttler told Business Insider.
The New York Times previously reported on the protest.