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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by gman83 on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:55AM (#19170137)
Imagine if a foreign advesary had access to this data, as well as credit-rating information like that obtained from the Equifax hack (not saying China is behind that, but it's plausible) and information like that was obtained from the Office of Personnel Management hack.

Then add some sophisticated big data analytics capabilities on top of that and a troublesome picture emerges.

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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by YarickR on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:37AM (#19170352)
Like, what kind of troublesome ? Care to provide more or less coherent and realistic scenario ?
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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by PakG1 on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:44AM (#19170399)
I think parent is saying this would be an interesting way to mine a population for marks that could be espionage targets with easily identifiable special needs susceptible to temptation by foreign entities for nefarious goals. Did I make that obtuse enough or what? :D
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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by coldtea on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:25AM (#19170690)
Because there aren't 100 easier ways to achieve that?
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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by PakG1 on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:42AM (#19170816)
But then where would all the cool historical spy movies come from as time passes?
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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by jacquesm on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:56AM (#19170481)
Blackmailing officials who have done something shady or embarrassing which has not yet been detected by the local authorities or the press.
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Re:China Could Use Medical Data to Blackmail Americans, Repo... by coldtea on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:24AM (#19170687)
Troubleshot? Any random advertiser has most of those data...
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