Health Data Heist

Matt Evans is Senior Fitness and Wearables Editor at TechRadar. He has also written for Runner’s World, Women’s Health, Men’s Fitness, T3: Tomorrow’s Technology Today, Tom’s Guide, Fit & Well, and many more outlets. Matt is passionate about digital privacy and data security, having covered stories about menstrual tracking data and big data breaches.

• Introduction: The heart of the problem1. Information overload: Where do all these numbers come from – and where do they go?2. Scraping by: How – and why – we give away our data3. Watching your health: How we use health tech4. Where’s our data?: How it’s processed5. Signatures: Profiling with data6. Criminality bytes: How hackers are reaching into reality, creating a new frontier of genetic theft7. Superhumans: The transformative upsides of digital health8. Cyborg-isation: The bizarre future of digital health, the meshing of man and machine9. Intelligent health: Deepfakes, decoding genetics and whether AI is making us dumber10. Surveillance states: Biometrics, big data and the problem with legislation11. A vision of the future: A look at a society empowered by data12. Practical advice: What can we do?ReferencesGlossaryAcknowledgements