Going to the doctor can involve sharing your most personal information, including details about your health, medical history and prescriptions.

It all ends up in your medical record — but a new study by researchers at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto found that in some cases, private companies are accessing parts of that data and selling it to pharmaceutical companies.

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    It’s not even that this is a privacy violation that bothers me (because it does), but the fact that people are getting rich off of our private, personal data is infuriating.

    I can’t stand that the most corrupt, unethical, evil, criminal, immoral people among us are the ones getting rich and living comfortable lives. It’s sickening.

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    Read an article yesterday where schools plus was hacked and all our kids data is also now available out there. Not that a lot of it wasn’t before but damn.