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A deep dive into how our precious health data is slipping away and the paths to reclaiming it.
Through wearables, consumer DNA tests, and even just the phones in our pockets, a vast and growing quantity of health data is collected every day. While this can be helpful for health agencies to improve public health and to us to perform better at sports, it all comes at a cost.
In a world of increased surveillance, tech companies and cybercriminals have the ability to acquire our most precious data and put profit above all else. This risks not only our privacy, but perhaps even democracy itself.
Tech journalist Matt Evans shows us why our precious health data is slipping away, how the data is used, and how we might reap the benefits without paying such huge costs. Featuring exclusive interviews with tech CEOs, lawyers and even reformed hackers, this is a deep-dive into the value of our health data and a manifesto for a new age of personal autonomy.
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Table of Contents
1. Information overload: Where do all these numbers come from – and where do they go?
2. Scraping by: How – and why – we give away our data
3. Watching your health: How we use health tech
4. Where's our data?: How it's processed
5. Signatures: Profiling with data
6. Criminality bytes: How hackers are reaching into reality, creating a new frontier of genetic theft
7. Superhumans: The transformative upsides of digital health
8. Cyborg-isation: The bizarre future of digital health, the meshing of man and machine
9. Intelligent health: Deepfakes, decoding genetics and whether AI is making us dumber
10. Surveillance states: Biometrics, big data and the problem with legislation
11. A vision of the future: A look at a society empowered by data
12. Practical advice: What can we do?
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Product details
| Published | 18 Feb 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781399429573 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Sport |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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