Big Data or Big Brother? The Design Flaw Threatening Uncle Sam’s Big Data Healthcare Plan--And How To Fix It

Big Data or Big Brother? The Design Flaw Threatening Uncle Sam’s Big Data Healthcare Plan--And How To Fix It: A big front-page story, and a scary headline, in the April 16 Washington Post: “Patient-records plan faces ethical pitfalls.” “Ethical pitfalls”? Yikes! Alert the privacy police! That is, the enforcers on the right, as well as the left!

Could our personal medical records fall into the hands of unethical employers, who will use them to discriminate? Or could our records fall into the hands of the Obamacare powercrats, who will use them to manipulate? Could institutional oppression, and the black helicopters, be far behind?

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