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idiotsecantlast Wednesday at 10:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is your point 'I have no major health conditions, so nobody could be hurt by releasing health data'? If so, I don't think I need to point out the gap in this logic.


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cyberpunklast Wednesday at 10:42 PM

Actually you maybe do. I am extremely privacy conscious; so i’m on your side on this one but health data is a bit different from handing over all your email and purchase information to google — in that scenario the danger is that the political or religious or whatever attributes i may have could be exposed to a future regime who considers what is acceptable today to no longer be so, uses them to profile and … whatever me, right? What actual danger is there from a government or a us tech company having my blood work details when i actually have nothing to hide like drug abuse or alcohol etc? health data seems much less risky than my political views, religion, sexuality, minor crimes committed and so on.

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moralestapialast Thursday at 12:18 AM

@cyberpunk's question is pretty clear.

You could try to answer that instead of making up a strawman.

Dialogue 101 but some people still ignore it.