Rewriting Life Need medical help? Sorry, not until you sign away your privacy When you’re sick, you’re vulnerable—and that’s when your doctor pressures you into participating in a data-gathering experiment. by Mary Madden 2018-10-23T05:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Can You Really Spot Cancer Through a Search Engine? A new study argues that mining people’s searches could help catch cancer sooner, providing a tantalizing glimpse of how our online habits might be used to improve health. by Michael Reilly 2016-06-08T15:10:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Tech Companies Are Not Trusted with Health Data A survey finds that consumers are not eager to give health information to Google, Apple, or Microsoft, but Facebook fared worst of all. by Antonio Regalado 2015-11-16T12:35:00-05:00
Business Impact Ancestry Moves Further into Consumer Genetics The company that began as a source of genealogical data now hopes to marry that information with DNA data—and sell it for research. by Anna Nowogrodzki 2015-07-16T09:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Can Software Make Health Data More Private? Software could prevent sensitive medical data from being inadvertently shared as health records get passed around. by David Talbot 2014-07-02T15:00:00-04:00
