The Trump administration and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced plans to begin building a new digital health information system, in collaboration with a growing list of private-sector companies.
"Any initiative that proposes to collect sensitive data, particularly vast amounts of health information and medical records, must ensure that no one uses that information in ways people don't expect," EFF's @htsuka.bsky.social told @theregister.com. www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/ ...
-- Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff.org) Aug 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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@#3 ... There my interest ends. If you are stupid enough to opt-in then you deserve any bad effects. ...
I agree.
But, when it is "opt-in," how difficult might the "opt-out" option be?
Is "opt-in" the default option presented?
I am reminded this about Amazon Prime mess...
FTC Takes Action Against Amazon for Enrolling Consumers in Amazon Prime Without Consent and Sabotaging Their Attempts to Cancel (2023)
www.ftc.gov
... Complaint outlines details of company's knowing failure to address non-consensual subscriptions and cancellation trickery ...
Big Tech seems to have mastered the ability to make (all but force) people to "opt-in." Their profits depend on it.)
So, I ask once again, what can possibly go wrong with my medical data being fed to Bg Tech's AI?
And then combine that with the data that Musk's DOGE efforts may have taken from Federal computing systems for his AI...
I am not optimistic.
#8: Spot on. Death, disease, and disability also allows US banks and creditors to repossess the meager possessions of those with unpayable debts: images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com
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