Re: Some entrepreneurs harvesting biometric data for free crypto
I'd agree here with NeuroticFish because a while ago I saw some documentary or so and it was about how the human body can literally be broken down into mathematical equations. While that is great for medical science,
the real question is what happens if health insurance companies get their hands on individual data sets? If a certain data set predicts specific health conditions significantly reliably or even only hints to potential health problems, what is going to happen to these individuals' insurance rates? It would completely undermine the idea of a solidly united society.
This just got interesting and am certain insurance companies are among the most invested parties wanting to get hold of such data and should there be a breakthrough using ai or mathematics and the analysis turns out to be highly reliable am afraid some people will be disadvantaged .So the question is: is it possible that the data gets into wrong hands? That question can certainly be answered with yes because as soon as that data is of significant value, rest assured it is accidentally going to be leaked into the wrong hands.
Data is indeed the new gold and as long as we have humans interacting with this data chances of compromise will always be there.