The Hidden Trade in Our Medical Data: Why We Should Worry

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 11:31 in Mathematics & Economics

For-profit companies use our anonymized medical data in a huge secondary market. Advances in computing make it increasingly possible for outsiders to identify people from among the hundreds of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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