healthcare.digital April 16, 2018
Digital trust is under siege
From the Equifax’s breach that compromised the credit information of 143 million Americans to the abusive data collection of 50 million Facebook accounts to influence the US presidential elections, a recent stream of scandals has cast a shadow of public defiance over the ability of platforms to protect our privacy. For years, trading intimate information about ourselves seemed like a good a deal as long as we enjoyed more freedom as consumers, i.e., greater access to information, people, merchandise, credit… The engine of the digital economy was always to create transparency in areas previously undisclosed, allowing the likes of Google or Facebook to harvest personal data like a digital currency.
Now comes...