Records on 300m patient interactions with NHS stolen in Russian hack
GuardianJUL 2024
Canada faces rising data breaches driven by cybercrime and state-sponsored attacks, targeting personal, financial, and health data. As threat actors grow more sophisticated, the government has allocated $917.4M, strengthened the Cyber Centre, and offers public guidance to enhance resilience. More companies must implement their own strict safeguards and share intelligence with the government.
While discussions about cyber threat protections are important, we should also discuss how these companies collect and sell our data as a business model. From fitness routines to sleep and menstrual cycles, health tech companies profit from giving third parties access to our most intimate details. If anyone is deciding to sell or monetize this information, it should be the patient.