Wow, this is just so upfront disturbing (both pictures). Thank you for posting this.
Have you happen to have read the Terms of Service or Terms of Use?
I wonder if all health insurers now (including TennCare*) “defray costs” by data-harvesting and monetizing its subscribers?
Lovely: yet more surveillance
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why so dang hackable?!?!
No idea what the progress has been made since April (this post below contains a multitude of further bOING posts re: how hackable medical devices are):
TL;DR = “our insecure medical devices must get regular security updates and simply must be connected to the web, gosh!” And if there’s a nice harvest o’ data piggybacked in the packets to and fro, well most people are not going to be sophisticated enough to notice, or will be forced to choose life over data privacy.
I wonder just how open source the field of medical devices will eventually become, and how soon.
People are understandably already studying this uh challenge:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/298328652_Open-source_hardware_for_medical_devices
… people doing research etc. can register on ResearchGate for free.
NB: I have no idea if this line of collaboration exposes users to angry patent trolls hired by medical companies to harass the free exchangers of ideas on the matter, or what other surveillance is on deck [as is the case in nearly every other platform, blah blah Big Data blah yes it is truly horrible dammit].
There is so much money in the medical device industry, and so few checks and balances therein. Another profit center now enmeshed in the medicine-insurance-Big-Data complex. Money money money. Print the fkn money. Huh:
I try to remain hopeful.
Intelligent people seem to be tracking the issues.
*I have family in eastern Tennessee who work, in varying degrees, in the medical industry. They have a lot to say about TennCare. Since I am in Texas, I try to shut up and listen, and ask informed questions. Texas has no analogous version of TennCare. You have my sympathy. Good luck!
