This is an interesting point. I actually view privacy efforts circa 2015 as attempts to bring information leakage back to small community (tribe-like) proporti

This is an interesting point. I actually view privacy efforts circa 2015 as attempts to bring information leakage back to small community (tribe-like) proportions. I.e. my personal information is at risk of leaking to at most a handful of perpetually core individuals in my life. That said, the precision medicine issue of the article is an interesting one. Under an ideal health privacy model, a patient would securely store and maintain their own medical records. When they visit a physician, they would bring the records which would allow the physician to make a diagnosis and update the records for later reference. This would make precision medicine unrealistic (as I see it) because there would simply be no populations to study. Finally, I'll add that this is HN, and I suspect a large proportion of us want privacy for no reason other than to stick it corporations and governments. To which I am fully supportive.