[Areading314]

The datasets are deidentified, so that doesn't seem like a plausible rationale

[nl]

The issue of monetizing is completely separate to de-identification.

Often sources of this type of medical data will give them to universities under the no-commerical-use condition.

[Areading314]

The reason they do this is so that they can later monetize the dataset.

[nl]

Often, no.

It's because if they charge for it the admin of having to pass money back to participating people is prohibitive.

Often you can't buy these datasets at any price.

[IfOnlyYouKnew]

Just look at how agitated people here are getting at the prospect of GitHub copilot using tiny code snippets from their work for potentially commercial works.

Then imagine it’s not your unique way to loop over a file in python, but your medical information.