Re: Your data will still get shared
> In order to "deanonymise" one needs to know the identity and certain identifying features to begin with
Or you just pay for the optional "companion database", which allows you to put names, (addresses, incomes and whatever else useful) on that data...
After all this is collected and assembled for commercial purposes, which means that if it allows you to pinpoint who to target its value is multiplied tenfold. Just knowing generally how many people have which problems is pretty much useless to marketers.
The people building this have already databases of who lives where, earns what and all that; It will be quite easy to link that to the new data of who has which health problem (and if some records are wrong, who cares).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
