If There’s Privacy In The Digital Age, It Has A New Definition

Collecting huge amounts of information about all of us and then using supercomputers to sift through, analyze and study it — this is a reality of modern life, and it can be a tremendously powerful thing.

 

Researchers can use techniques like those to identify genetic markers linked to breast cancer, better understand climate change or figure out how to combat hospital infections.

 

The collection of personal information has become so ubiquitous that even staunch privacy advocates now say it’s impossible to build a protective wall around your all personal data. Rather, they say, expectations for privacy have to be redefined. Danny Weitzner, who organized a privacy workshop at MIT with White House

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