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It's that knowing that someone has a rare medical condition that someone willingly shared can be a signal to find out other things in their medical records that
by Tostino 5y ago
It's that knowing that someone has a rare medical condition that someone willingly shared can be a signal to find out other things in their medical records that they may not have wanted to share with others they know.
- rvnx 5y agoLet's look in practice, as they exist: look at VAERS for example, it's in this exact situation (these are public records posted on a public and non-confidential HTTP server): https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/datasets.html This is the type of raw records we are talking about, and they carry useful information. Yes, maybe the dates could be anonymised better, if I know the age of someone, and I know when he got his vaccine precisely, and when he got his MRI and why he did it, then maybe I can find and connect back the record. But how likely this attack can be done in practice, and why would you do it to someone who already disclosed part of their records, plus how does it scale ? However, the benefits are really present, it's not sharing just for the sake of sharing but to bring advance to the global research and knowledge of medicine. In practice, who is it ? I don't know, who can know ? Doctors who can tie it to other pieces of information that we don't have... However, in the meantime, the researchers and doctors who don't have these foreign keys, they can totally do interesting and useful discoveries about drug interactions and vaccine side-effects.
- throwawaygh 5y agoI can show you 10 code snippets that don’t contain sec vulns. Therefore, software security is easy.