Digital Health and Privacy

摘要

Technology and the profit motive combine to offer us tremendous benefits — often life-saving ones. But this combination also challenges our right to privacy. Take, for example, the amazing new health care devices unveiled at the recent Intel Developer Forum (IDF) conference held in San Francisco. Intel, like many corporations Wall Street requires to grow at double-digit rates, feeds voraciously off the mass market. It isn't surprising, then, that Intel is targeting health care. A potentially huge market, health care needs the kind of semiconductor technology that is Intel's strength.