The Guardian, 1/10/017
Private medical data is a multi-million dollar industry that is growing rapidly, according to Adam Tanner at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science. When medical data is initially sold to big data miners, it may be referred to only by unidentifiable numbers. However, data miners can re-identify patients by cross-referencing the medical data with data collected from other sources.
[See the full post at: Private Medical Data Is For Sale – and It’s Driving a Business Worth Billions]