“I’ve Given Up on the Idea of Privacy”
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
By now most of us understand the privacy consequences of all the data we handed over to social media and Internet companies. But what happens to the huge amount of health information we generate from health apps, DNA kits, doctors' visits, blood tests and fitness trackers? Some of it's carefully protected by law. Other data -- including intimate details about our lives -- can be sold to brokers who trade it like a commodity. How worried should we be?
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| 0:00.0 | Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money? |
| 0:05.3 | Well, today's your lucky day. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Matt Levine. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Katie Greifeld. |
| 0:09.5 | And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff. |
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| 0:22.0 | Many Stuff the Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.5 | Every day you're generating data about your health, you might not even be aware of it. Maybe your phone counts how many steps you take. |
| 0:39.3 | Maybe your watch measures your pulse or your heart rhythm. |
| 0:43.3 | Or you use an app to track your exercise or diet. |
| 0:46.3 | And that doesn't even count your medical data. |
| 0:49.3 | The records that doctors and insurance companies and pharmacies keep about all of us. |
| 0:55.3 | All that data goes somewhere, and it's valuable to someone. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to Prognosis, Bloomberg's podcast about the intersection of health and technology |
| 1:08.0 | and the unexpected places it's taking us. I'm your host, Michelle Fay-Cortez. The amount of health and technology and the unexpected places it's taking us. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm your host, Michelle Fay-Cortez. |
| 1:16.8 | The amount of health data is increasing, fast. |
| 1:20.0 | From medical records to health apps and devices, |
| 1:22.5 | to our shopping habits and online browsing, |
| 1:25.2 | every day we leave digital footprints, |
| 1:28.3 | revealing intimate aspects of our lives. That comes with benefits and risks. |
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