started tracking my own medical surveillance after insurance company raised my premiums. they said based on risk assessment. didnt say what data they used. didnt need to. YOUR BODY IS DATABASE NOW. every heartbeat logged. every step counted. every symptom googled. all of it for sale.
hipaa supposed to protect medical privacy. but hipaa only covers doctors and hospitals. doesnt cover fitness apps. period trackers. mental health apps. meditation apps. symptom checkers. telemedicine platforms. legal loophole deliberate design. they moved healthcare outside healthcare system so privacy laws dont apply.
downloaded my data from fitness tracker once. three years of heart rate. sleep patterns. exercise. locations. menstrual cycles. sexual activity. stress levels. mood. COMPLETE BIOLOGICAL PROFILE. then read terms of service. they own it all. can sell to anyone. aggregate it. analyze it. monetize it. my body became their product and i clicked agree.
twenty-six million people gave their dna to 23andme. spit in tube. mailed it to company. wanted to know ancestry. health risks. genetic traits. what they got was permanent surveillance of their biological code. DNA IS FOREVER.
23andme sold access to genetic data to pharmaceutical companies. glaxosmithkline paid three hundred million dollars. not for research. for product development. for drug targeting. for knowing exactly which populations to market which medications to. your dna became market research. became intellectual property they could patent.
terms of service say they own your genetic data in perpetuity. you cant take it back. cant delete it. cant opt out once youve sent it. even if you close account your dna stays in their database. forever LITERALLY FOREVER.
law enforcement uses these databases. golden state killer caught through cousins dna on genealogy site. sounds good right. caught a murderer. but now police have access to genetic database covering thirty percent of americans. can search without warrant. without consent. without YOU EVER KNOWING THEY LOOKED.
insurance companies want access. havent gotten it yet legally. but they will. once they can check your genetic predispositions before setting premiums how long before having wrong genes makes you uninsurable. before genetic discrimination becomes STANDARD BUSINESS PRACTICE.
friend used ancestry site. never asked me. her dna revealed my genetic markers. my health risks. my ancestry. my family medical history. i never consented doesnt matter. your relatives can expose your biology without your permission. genetic privacy is collective. one person breaks it breaks for entire family tree.
fertility clinics store embryonic dna. cord blood banks store infant genetics. newborn screening programs keep blood samples. theyre building complete genetic database of entire population. not through force. through convenience. through fear of missing information. through MONETIZING PARENTAL ANXIETY.
china already has genetic database of seventy million people. using it for surveillance. for tracking. for social control. we act like that couldnt happen here. but we already built the database. already normalized the collection. already made it profitable to catalog human biology. the surveillance infrastructure exists. just waiting for someone to use it.
health apps are trojan horses. look helpful. track your steps. monitor your calories. remind you to breathe. but really theyre data vacuums extracting everything about your body. your habits. your vulnerabilities. YOUR ILLNESS IS THEIR BUSINESS MODEL.
period tracking apps know youre pregnant before you do. know when youre ovulating. when youre fertile. when youre trying to conceive. selling that data to advertisers. to data brokers. to anyone who wants to target women based on reproductive status. after roe v wade overturned people started deleting period trackers. too late data already collected. already sold. already in databases that never forget.
mental health apps claim privacy. claim confidentiality. claim therapeutic relationship. then sell your depression to pharmaceutical companies. sell your anxiety to advertisers. sell your suicidal ideation to data brokers who sell to insurers. THERAPY AS SURVEILLANCE.
betterhelp caught selling mental health data. talkspace caught too. cerebral. seven cups. every therapy app investigated selling user data. claimed it was anonymized. but anonymized data isnt anonymous. researchers proved you can identify individuals from supposedly anonymous health data with ninety-nine point nine eight percent accuracy using only zip code birth date and gender.
friend used meditation app for anxiety. later got denied life insurance. they wouldnt say why. but she knew. they knew she had anxiety because app sold her meditation frequency. her stress levels. her panic attack data. she tried to manage her health. it made her uninsurable.
fitness trackers monitor everything. heart rate variability indicates stress. sleep patterns indicate depression. step count indicates motivation. they know when youre sick before you do. when youre struggling. when youre vulnerable. and that data goes to employers. to insurers. to ANYONE WILLING TO PAY.
employers giving free fitness trackers. sounds generous. but theyre monitoring you. tracking productivity through step counts. flagging health risks. building profiles of who costs most in healthcare. wellness program BIOMETRIC SURVEILLANCE DISGUISED AS BENEFIT.
apple watch detects irregular heartbeat. saved someones life they said. great. but now apple has your cardiac data. your blood oxygen. your ecg. your fall detection. your noise exposure. complete medical device that isnt regulated as medical device so NO PRIVACY PROTECTIONS APPLY.
insurance companies want all your data. not just medical records. everything. social media to assess mental health. purchase history to assess lifestyle. driving records. credit scores. property records. employment history. TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS FOR PROFIT.
john hancock life insurance offers discounts for wearing fitness tracker. sounds optional. but if healthy people opt in and get discounts then unhealthy people pay more by not opting in. choice coercion. surveillance becomes mandatory through pricing.
health insurance companies buying prescription data. not from you. from pharmacy benefit managers. from data brokers. they know every medication youve filled. every dose. every refill. building profiles of chronic conditions. pre-existing conditions. expensive conditions. then finding reasons to deny coverage.
medical records get breached constantly. anthem breach exposed eighty million records. premera blue cross eleven million. excellus ten million. these arent credit cards you can cancel. this is your medical history. your diagnoses. your treatments. your test results. PERMANENT EXPOSURE OF PERMANENT RECORDS.
breached medical records sell for fifty dollars each on dark web. ten times more than credit card data. because medical records contain everything. social security number. address. employment. insurance. diagnoses. medications. enough to steal identity. enough to blackmail. enough to discriminate.
telemedicine companies storing video of your appointments. ai analyzing your facial expressions. your voice patterns. your word choice. diagnosing depression from how you talk. anxiety from how you move. ALGORITHMIC DIAGNOSIS WITHOUT CONSENT. then selling those insights to whoever wants them.
prescription monitoring databases track every controlled substance. every opioid. every benzodiazepine. every stimulant. supposedly to prevent abuse. but employers access them. insurers access them. law enforcement accesses them. medical privacy PHARMACEUTICAL SURVEILLANCE STATE.
friend prescribed xanax for flying anxiety. later denied security clearance. they found prescription in monitoring database. said anxiety disorder is security risk. medication meant to help her became PERMANENT MARK AGAINST HER. she was managing her health responsibly. system punished her for it.
ai reading medical images now. radiology. pathology. dermatology. scanning for cancer. for disease. for abnormalities. sounds good. but ai trained on your medical images without consent. hospitals sold imaging data to tech companies. YOUR TUMORS TRAINED THEIR ALGORITHMS.
google bought fitbit. now has health data on thirty million people. apple has health app data on hundreds of millions. amazon bought pillpack. has prescription data. tech companies arent getting into healthcare to help you. theyre getting into healthcare to complete their surveillance profiles.
electronic health records supposed to improve care. make information accessible. reduce errors. but now every doctor every nurse every administrator can access your complete medical history. every hospitalization. every diagnosis. every embarrassing symptom. every mental health crisis. and they do. healthcare workers caught snooping on celebrity records. on neighbors. on ex-partners. medical privacy is dead killed by convenience.
health information exchanges share your records across hospitals. across states. without asking. they say its for continuity of care. but really its for data aggregation. for population health analytics. for research you never consented to. YOUR ILLNESS IS THEIR DATASET.
symptom checker apps are data collection fronts. you tell them youre dizzy. nauseous. having chest pain. theyre not diagnosing you. theyre cataloging symptoms. building disease databases. training ai on your medical fears. then selling insights to pharmaceutical companies about what diseases people are worried about. what symptoms are trending. where to MARKET WHICH MEDICATIONS.
covid contact tracing apps were test run. see if people would accept health surveillance. they did. downloaded willingly. enabled bluetooth tracking. reported symptoms. shared health status. proved people will accept ANY SURVEILLANCE if you call it health emergency.
now they know. know we will give up medical privacy for convenience. for fear. for being told its for our own good. infrastructure is built. databases exist. surveillance is normalized. just waiting for next emergency. next pandemic. next excuse to protect us monitor us.
pharmaceutical companies buying prescriber data. knowing exactly which doctors prescribe which medications. targeting them with marketing. with incentives. with pressure. your doctor doesnt prescribe in vacuum. prescribes under PHARMACEUTICAL SURVEILLANCE.
direct to consumer drug advertising turned patients into sales force. see ad for depression medication. ask doctor for it by name. doctor knows pharmaceutical rep is tracking their prescriptions. knows they get bonuses for prescribing certain drugs. you think youre making medical decision. really youre participating in choreographed sales process.
pharmacy benefit managers control access to medications. decide which drugs are covered. which require prior authorization. which have cheaper alternatives. but theyre not doctors. theyre middlemen extracting profit from your illness. and they have complete database of every medication you take. every condition you have. every treatment you try.
mail order pharmacies require you use them for chronic medications. insurance wont cover retail anymore. sounds like cost saving. but really theyre centralizing your prescription data. knowing exactly who has diabetes. who has heart disease. who has hiv. who has mental illness. DISEASE AS DEMOGRAPHIC.
prescription discount cards arent charity. theyre data harvesting. goodrx. singlecare. blink health. all selling your prescription data to advertisers. to data brokers. to anyone wanting to target sick people. you save ten dollars. they make millions selling your MEDICAL VULNERABILITIES.
medical billing data tracks everything. every diagnosis code. every procedure code. every test ordered. insurance companies have it. medicare has it. billing clearinghouses have it. data brokers buy it. aggregate it. sell it. your complete medical history available to highest bidder anyone with budget.
worst part is we need the medications. need the insurance. need the healthcare. cant opt out. cant refuse to share data because refusal means no treatment. means no coverage. means DIE OR SURRENDER YOUR PRIVACY. they made healthcare extraction mandatory then called it insurance.
they know your body better than you do. know your genetic risks. your current conditions. your medication history. your vital signs. your sleep patterns. your reproductive status. your mental health. your substance use. COMPLETE BIOLOGICAL PROFILE FOR SALE.
health surveillance is perfect surveillance. cant opt out of being sick. cant opt out of aging. cant opt out of body that requires medical care. they made healthcare into extraction mechanism. made illness into data source. made your body into renewable resource they harvest forever.
hipaa is theater. covers doctors but not apps. covers hospitals but not fitness trackers. covers insurers but not data brokers who buy from insurers. designed to look like protection while allowing UNLIMITED SURVEILLANCE as long as its called research or marketing or analytics.
people say if youre healthy you have nothing to hide. but everyone gets sick. everyone ages. everyone has medical data that could be used against them. used to raise premiums. deny coverage. reject employment. discriminate. PERFECT HEALTH IS TEMPORARY. medical surveillance is forever.
watch people upload their medical data to apps. to trackers. to platforms. thinking theyre managing their health. theyre not. theyre volunteering for surveillance creating permanent records of biological vulnerabilities. records that will outlive them. that their children will inherit access to. that will follow their genetics through generations.
tried to avoid it. no fitness tracker. no health apps. no genetic testing. doesnt matter. hospital has my records. insurance has my claims. pharmacy has my prescriptions. doctor uses electronic health records. lab uses digital systems. IMPOSSIBLE TO RECEIVE HEALTHCARE WITHOUT CREATING SURVEILLANCE DATA.
this is the trap. need healthcare to live. healthcare requires creating data. data gets sold. gets breached. gets used against you. circle completes. your body becomes database. your illness becomes product. your health becomes EXTRACTABLE RESOURCE.
people will read this and schedule their next doctors appointment through app. refill prescription through website. check their fitness tracker. upload their symptoms to ai. because alternative is not getting healthcare. and they made that not an option.
the medical surveillance state is here. not coming. here. built from genetic databases and fitness trackers and therapy apps and electronic health records. comprehensive. inescapable. profitable. YOUR BIOLOGY IS THEIR BUSINESS. and you cant opt out of having a body.