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If the data is rigorously anonymized, then it loses all value for the health insurance / advertising sector, who want to exclude high-cost patients from coverag
by photochemsyn 3y ago
If the data is rigorously anonymized, then it loses all value for the health insurance / advertising sector, who want to exclude high-cost patients from coverage and target individuals with health conditions, respectively.
Do you think Big Tech shareholders (with additional holdings in pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, agribusiness etc.) would be interested in a database of rigorously anonymized patient data intended to discover relationships between things like pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease, or unpleaseant side effects of currently profitable pharmaceutical products?
- nmca 3y agoI basically don't believe non-degenerate (psued)anonymization is possible, although that complicated af homomorphic encryption stuff makes me a little uncertain.