Going to the doctor can involve sharing your most personal information, including details about your health, medical history and prescriptions.
It all ends up in your medical record — but a new study by researchers at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto found that in some cases, private companies are accessing parts of that data and selling it to pharmaceutical companies.
It’s not even that this is a privacy violation that bothers me (because it does), but the fact that people are getting rich off of our private, personal data is infuriating.
I can’t stand that the most corrupt, unethical, evil, criminal, immoral people among us are the ones getting rich and living comfortable lives. It’s sickening.