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There’s nothing more “me” than my brain. I expect sufficiently advanced science to be able to narrow down my identity from a detailed enough scan of my brain.
by spacehome 8y ago
There’s nothing more “me” than my brain. I expect sufficiently advanced science to be able to narrow down my identity from a detailed enough scan of my brain. Whether this can be done today is a question of technology, and I’m not abreast of the latest findings in this field.
- brlewis 8y agoIf the data shared included a detailed brain scan, then yes I'd say the hospital was lying about "anonymized form", same as if it included a retinal scan or fingerprint.
- JangoSteve 8y agoOr genomic information, or a unique combination of drug interactions which could be combined into a sort of health fingerprint, or phenotype information, race or age, which are often necessary to provide medical context for diagnoses, or timestamps on test results that match up with events in your calendar or destinations in your navigation or security camera footage, and I'm sure the list goes on. The word "anonymity" is a little ambigious. It can mean "unable to be identified" or it can mean "namelessness". There's not much information about anyone that is truly unable to be identified, especially when combined with additional pieces of data readily available from external sources. It all depends on who they're sharing the anonymous data with and to what external data do those partners have access.