Sparks: US government is pushing to gain unprecedented access to your medical records - as data protections are weakening

Do not trust the man who offers you security but demands your secrets; the storm that drowns the ship is the same sea that promised the voyage.

The revolution that casts off the tyrant only to build a surveillance state has won the battle but lost the republic it swore to create.

An authority that claims sole custody of your body's truth is an authority that still believes the universe has only one center.

Simplify: the body's final privacy is the one fact no ledger should record without the soul's consent.

Supreme control is exerted not by seizing the fortress but by convincing the garrison to leave the gate unguarded.

When the law, which was designed to protect the citizen from the state, is quietly rewritten to empower the state over the citizen, liberty dies by procedure.

Before we tear down the fence of medical privacy, we must first remember why our ancestors built it: to keep the king's tax collector out of the sickroom.

'The data will be anonymized for research purposes.' Anonymized by whom, for whose purposes, and with what guarantee that the name will not be written back in later?

What appears as policy is often just the accumulated, unplanned adaptation of bureaucracy to the new terrain of digital availability.

The greatest triumph of power is convincing us that surrendering our most intimate data is the price of modern citizenship.

From inside the system, the promise of confidentiality sounds very different than it does in the press release.

Hateful things: a form that asks for trust but gives none in return, and a promise that evaporates upon closer reading.

For the widow managing her diabetes, this new efficiency means her condition is no longer her own private business.

One finds the most revealing detail not in the grand policy, but in the small print of the waiver no one is given time to read.