The Rising Public Health Leviathan: New York's Shiny New SHIN-NY
The state is bringing everyone's personal health information under one roof, making room to store more detailed data about our lives, and creating a whole new health information ecosystem.
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Remember when Facebook was shiny and new? What a great way to stay in touch with far-flung friends and family! You could share all your news and photos with them, catch up on current events, or link up with a whole new crowd of like-minded people. Awesome!
As we all know, there have also been some downsides to the social media era launched by Facebook. New kinds of social strife and dangers emerged, and social media companies built on data brokering became a massive surveillance machine, churning out detailed consumer data that anyone who wants to sell us anything can buy.
Social media and all of the data-collecting digital businesses became useful to government agencies, too—but only up to a point. Intelligence services can mon…