"Through commercial surveillance, our health data is extracted to profile us, reveal our health conditions, manipulate our behavior, and charge us more for care. These exploitative data practices worsen our health outcomes: without privacy protections, people are pushed away from care. Privacy leads to trust; trust leads to better health outcomes and improved health equity. Beyond HIPAA lays out the ways Big Tech is harming our health and wellbeing."
""We face a health privacy crisis where care is inaccessible due to criminalization, costs, stigma, and the rise of government intrusion into medical care which forces people to delay or retreat from care, worsening their health," said Sara Geoghegan, EPIC Senior Counsel. "When our health data is harvested, sold, and used in harmful ways-like for targeted ads or to set our insurance rates-people's trust in our health system breaks down even further.""
Unregulated digital technologies, weak privacy laws, criminalization of many forms of health care, and federal attacks on marginalized communities have created a health data privacy crisis. Commercial surveillance extracts health data to profile people, reveal conditions, manipulate behavior, and increase costs for care. Exploitative data practices push people away from care and worsen health outcomes. Privacy builds trust, and trust improves health outcomes and health equity. Big Tech operates a commercial surveillance apparatus that harvests sensitive personal information and generates profiles. Those profiles enable targeted advertising, surveillance pricing, and data broker sales to insurance providers, making care harder and more expensive to access.
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