In Texas werden Patientendaten verkauft

Ganz legal. Mit staatlicher Unterstützung. Money quote:

“The monetization of de-identified patient data contained in our EHR (electronic health records) is essential to our company’s success.

Wobei sich diese De-Identifizierung relativ einfach wieder rückgängig machen lässt:

Despite using various measures to deidentify health records, it is possible to reidentify them in a surprisingly large number of cases by using computerized network databases containing voter registration records, hospital discharge records, commercially available databases, and other sources.

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