I just got a COVID-19 test — who now knows I got it?

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August 28, 2020

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The Next Web

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“De-identified ain’t what it used to be,”

“People tend to have a pretty strong knee-jerk reaction to the idea of their health data being sold, for very good reasons,”

“To me, it’s not necessarily always bad that de-identified data are being transferred or shared or analyzed by private companies,” she said. “The question to me is really how you do that responsibly.”