This crackdown on data brokering bothers me. I'm writing from the medical data industry. Data isn't neccesarily about unwanted creepy stuff. In other industrie

This crackdown on data brokering bothers me. I'm writing from the medical data industry. Data isn't neccesarily about unwanted creepy stuff. In other industries, customer data can be used to recomend the right stuff, or make the kind of movies people want to watch. That stuff enhances peoples lives - in individually small but additive ways. In my industry, data really can save lives. For instance the prime minister of my country apparantly wants to apply AI to peoples GP records to spot people who have undiagnosed cancer. This seems pretty viable to me - even in the most simple case you could quickly spot families with high cancer risk, offer the young women in them gene sequencing, and then offer the ones that are carrying super high risk cancer genes preventative treatement. You'd certainly save lives this way. There are a lot of very scary ethical questions in my industry. Widespread use of genetics to price insurance. Employers requiring employees give access to medical records before confirming employment. And much more. But I do worry this backlash will make it much harder to do good.