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.” Concerns about consumer-generated data and third-party data brokers’ and others’ potential to exploit the information outside of pure health care uses is not a new-new thing.
. “Regulators should focus on full transparency, requiring sharing as opposed to privacy policies…privacy will become an important social determinant of health.”
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