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A public immutable and distributed log saying somebody sees various psychology specialists, or disease specialists over the course of a few years... this metada
by hertzrat 6y ago
A public immutable and distributed log saying somebody sees various psychology specialists, or disease specialists over the course of a few years... this metadata is almost as personal as the raw data in many cases.
- josefx 6y agoI am almost surprised that companies don't get into more trouble over location tracking. Your smartphone knows exactly when and how often you see a doctor.
- hertzrat 6y agoAll the doctors websites around here, including for specialists, use google fonts and google maps etc. I assume there is some metadata involved there too
- rglullis 6y agoI guess HN's pedantism will make me write a whole paper about what was supposed to be a simple example... Anyway, both the example of advertisement and health care data need to also provide privacy. In both cases the data should be considered sensitive and not public. In both cases, the data can be protected through blind signatures. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature