Your medical records are a proxy to your current health. Thanks to big data, they are a proxy to your future health and that of your relatives too (and by exten

Your medical records are a proxy to your current health. Thanks to big data, they are a proxy to your future health and that of your relatives too (and by extension, theirs to yours). Health factors can impact every relationship you have with anything or anyone, as well as your ability to perform any activity, and many of them are not reversible in the way that debts can be repaid or ideology can change. Therefore, if you believe in any need for privacy at all, then health is the most important privacy of all.