Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 9/23/23
Your health data belongs to everyone, Dodgy data practices of genetic testing firms, The former drug smuggling king of data brokers, NCS implementation plan gaps, Zoomers who pioneer AI detection
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What Big Tech Knows About Your Body
In The Atlantic, tech reporter Yael Grauer delves into how all of our health data submitted online to mental health services, such as Better Health, filling prescriptions, stepping on smart scales, or using smart thermometers, is available to advertisers and tech companies and is generally poorly protected.
All of this information is valuable to advertisers and to the tech companies that sell ad space and targeting to them. It’s valuable precisely because it’s intimate: More than perhaps anything else, our health guides our behavior. And the more these companies know, the easier t…
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