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Even more illegal.

• ghaff 6y ago
  There are plenty of valid reasons to share data, e.g. for medical research among others.
  • iso1631 6y ago
    Then get informed consent
    • jacquesm 6y ago
      That's a must. In some countries this is now automated at the government level, Belgium for instance has an excellent consent mechanism for medical data.
      • ghaff 6y ago
        Right. But that still involves anonymizing data. I'd also point out that there is a huge amount of COVID data being shared at the moment and, outside of vaccine trials, I'd be pretty certain a lot of it is not under any sort of informed consent. (As is true of a lot of population statistics generally.)
• jacquesm 6y ago
  Not necessarily, but very hard to do properly.