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Highway to (Digital) Surveillance: When Are Clients Coerced to Share Their Data with Insurers?

Actuaries were the first data scientists. Pooled risk calculations, in the form of insurance underwriting, involved consumers implicitly consenting to their personal data being used – in return, the reduction of premium costs. Data in exchange for money. As technology advances, the data streams we are able to offer, or rather the insurers feel they …

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We must save privacy from privacy itself

“Michele Loi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich. He argues that proponents of privacy should not put privacy above health – else risk sliding into irrelevance. [..] The second risk for privacy is paradoxical: it follows from having “too much respect” for privacy itself. If our concern with privacy prevents urgent political action …

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