The Health Data Heist
Why Big Tech Wants Your Body
Will be published approx. on 18. February 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-3994-2959-7 (ISBN)
Description
A deep dive into how our precious health data is slipping away and the paths to reclaiming it.
Through wearables, consumer DNA tests, and even just the phones in our pockets, a vast and growing quantity of health data is collected every day. While this can be helpful for health agencies to improve public health and to us to perform better at sports, it all comes at a cost.
In a world of increased surveillance, tech companies and cybercriminals have the ability to acquire our most precious data and put profit above all else. This risks not only our privacy, but perhaps even democracy itself.
Tech journalist Matt Evans shows us why our precious health data is slipping away, how the data is used, and how we might reap the benefits without paying such huge costs. Featuring exclusive interviews with tech CEOs, lawyers and even reformed hackers, this is a deep-dive into the value of our health data and a manifesto for a new age of personal autonomy.
Through wearables, consumer DNA tests, and even just the phones in our pockets, a vast and growing quantity of health data is collected every day. While this can be helpful for health agencies to improve public health and to us to perform better at sports, it all comes at a cost.
In a world of increased surveillance, tech companies and cybercriminals have the ability to acquire our most precious data and put profit above all else. This risks not only our privacy, but perhaps even democracy itself.
Tech journalist Matt Evans shows us why our precious health data is slipping away, how the data is used, and how we might reap the benefits without paying such huge costs. Featuring exclusive interviews with tech CEOs, lawyers and even reformed hackers, this is a deep-dive into the value of our health data and a manifesto for a new age of personal autonomy.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3994-2959-7 (9781399429597)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Matt Evans is Senior Fitness and Wearables Editor at TechRadar. He has also written for Runner's World, Women's Health, Men's Fitness, T3: Tomorrow's Technology Today, Tom's Guide, Fit & Well, and many more outlets. Matt is passionate about digital privacy and data security, having covered stories about menstrual tracking data and big data breaches.
Content
Introduction
1. Information overload: What is Health Data?
2. Scraping by: How data is collected today
3. Wear's our data?: How we use health tech
4. Where's our data?: How it's processed
5. Signatures: Profiling with data
6. Criminality bytes: Data and fraud
7. Superhumans: The upside of health data
8. Cyborg-ization: The future of digital health
9. Arterial Intelligence: AI in health
10. Surveillance state: Governments and data laws
11. A Vision of the future
Taking back control
Glossary
Acknowledgements
1. Information overload: What is Health Data?
2. Scraping by: How data is collected today
3. Wear's our data?: How we use health tech
4. Where's our data?: How it's processed
5. Signatures: Profiling with data
6. Criminality bytes: Data and fraud
7. Superhumans: The upside of health data
8. Cyborg-ization: The future of digital health
9. Arterial Intelligence: AI in health
10. Surveillance state: Governments and data laws
11. A Vision of the future
Taking back control
Glossary
Acknowledgements