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   Ewan Donnachie (erdonnachie@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:54:59 JST Ewan Donnachie

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   • emilygorcenski
   • Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

   @siderea @emilygorcenski
   I'm always astonished at the personal information and video material that the US police share with the world. Data protection culture is quite different in Germany...

   But I'm also astonished that people give their sensitive health data to a private company, that is incentivised to use this data for their profit, not for the benefit of the customer. I would expect misuse of data by the company, and probably less focus on data security (than in Germany...)

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     Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis (siderea@universeodon.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:55:00 JST Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

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     • emilygorcenski

     @ERDonnachie

     While I'm generally first in line to slag capitalism and corporate enterprise, why do you think a public or non-profit organization would do it better? The US feds through their profound incompetence basically gave up the home addresses of some astonishing number of therapists by just not considering it confidential. Also wasn't the US's security clearance database compromised?

     I don't think the for-profit nature helps, but I think that's locating the problem in the wrong place.

     @emilygorcenski

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     Ewan Donnachie (erdonnachie@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:55:01 JST Ewan Donnachie

     • emilygorcenski

     @emilygorcenski
     Who would have thought it's a bad idea to entrust a private, commercially-oriented company with the analysis and storage of your genetic information?

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     Ewan Donnachie (erdonnachie@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 19:28:10 JST Ewan Donnachie

     • emilygorcenski
     • Siderea, Sibylla Bostoniensis

     @emilygorcenski @siderea
     That's true, they're offering a service that people definitely seem to want. But coming from a European perspective, it's horrifying.

     Germany tends to go the other way, due to having 2 dictatorships in the past century that misused such data. We're having trouble getting basic, pseudonymous data on the entire population made available for research. Genetic data is viewed as incredibly sensitive, for obvious reasons.