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Data Privacy and the Hard Questions

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Manoush's 'spidey sense' fires as she pushes back hard on the privacy implications of mass health data collection. She raises the 23andMe breach as a concrete example — her own genetic data ended up on the dark web a year after she overcame her reservations and signed up. ^{[1] — Manoush Zomorodi "Manoush Zomorodi presses Snyder on the real risks of health data collection: insurance discrimination, hacking, and the 23andMe breach that…" 32:35 Play} Snyder's first response is practical: in principle you own your data, but in practice it must be stored somewhere hackable, and the good outweighs the evil. His second response is more provocative: 'privacy, get over it — nothing's private.' He compares health data to credit card data, arguing we already accept that tradeoff without thinking. He notes that insurance companies currently lack the sophistication to discriminate based on genomic or wearable data, but acknowledges that as interpretation tools improve, protective legislation will be essential. He also reveals that he has 2 petabytes of his own personal health data publicly available online — and has never been abused because of it.