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Medical privacy under threat in the age of big data

Posted on August 7, 2015 by pogowasright.org

Farai Chideya writes:

“I didn’t understand the issue of medical privacy. It sounded abstract,” says Deanna Fei, author of the new book Girl in Glass, which covers the premature birth of her daughter Mila and an ensuing storm over medical privacy and ethics. Now she says firmly, “This is an issue of civil rights and social justice. Without the right to medical privacy, ordinary Americans can’t keep information from being used against them.”

Read more on The Intercept.

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