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okay real talk is this (a) a serious suggestion that health data privacy should be eliminated to buy us a regulation that we already have, or (b) sarcasm? beca
by fennecfoxen 6y ago
okay real talk is this (a) a serious suggestion that health data privacy should be eliminated to buy us a regulation that we already have, or (b) sarcasm?
because I'm leaning (b) on principle from my own analysis of the tradeoff but there aren't powerful sarcasm flags in this post that I see, nor is there much in the way of arguments to convince me
- djbebs 6y agoNot OP, but scientific conclusions need to be verifiable, especially if they are driving policy. IMO you'd need a very good reason to keep any data related to such studies secret, and thats only if the data being kept secret isn't meaningful to the reproduction and verification of the results. Knowing who is X data point is most certainly relevant to independently verifying whether or not the data of the study is accurate, so i have a very hard time seeing how that should be kept secret.