[fastaguy88]

BioBank claims (1) only de-identified data was available and (2) none of the data was actually sold before the datasets were taken down.

[john_strinlai]

unfortunately for most people, de-identified data is typically a very short analysis away from being re-identified.

the field of de-anonymization is booming.

[nxobject]

Especially for a nation-state that's already hoovering up data broker products.