RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

[Mike 03]

9. Health data given over the internet is not private

even if they say it is.

I only learned about this on Bloomberg two days ago, but Weight Watchers, which is declaring bankruptcy, was selling patient data in spite of the fact that it states superficially on its website that it won't. If you read the entire Terms and Conditions, there is a loophole buried deep inside, but nobody has the time to read TAC or interpret the legalese.

So they were asking patients about all their pre-existing conditions, medications, and even eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. According to Bloomberg, one of the questions they asked had to do with making yourself vomit after eating. That is how personal the data they collected was, and that's the kind of data they sold (or, hell, maybe even gave away).

To trust that anything we provide online will remain private is actual folly.