Records on 300m patient interactions with NHS stolen in Russian hack
GuardianJUN 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 to addressing the issue, strengthened the Cyber Centre, and begun offering 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 cycle trackers, health tech companies profit from giving third parties access to our most intimate details. It's time that patients be allowed to take ownership of their personal details.