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

Calamity follows the man who invites the state into his sickbed. Do not trust a master who claims to heal by counting every wound you possess. Power always devours the intimacy it promises to protect.

The proposed archives rely upon the fragile discretion of administrators rather than the structural necessity of encryption, ensuring that every private ailment becomes a permanent instrument of political leverage for whoever eventually seizes the keys.

If we grant the city the power to inspect the body's secret failures for the sake of health, must we not also ask if the city itself is healthy enough to handle such a dangerous medicine?

The operational sequence of this database ignores the fundamental distinction between a physical symptom and its digital shadow, weaving a tapestry of surveillance that the inventor mistakes for a map of human wellness.

Forget the talk of research benefits; here is a Prince who realizes that a subject’s biological history is a more effective shackle than any iron chain, provided he can seize it while the laws are in flux.

Since the privacy policy was updated to include everyone's internal organs, the ministry has found it much easier to track the national mood by simply monitoring the collective rise and fall of thirty million gallbladders.

Things that are truly distasteful: a stranger reading one's fever charts, a government that peeps through the physician's curtain, and the cold, gray light of a screen that knows more than a lover.

In the markets of the West, I find a new kind of judge who demands to see the traveler’s internal constitution before granting passage, a custom far more invasive than the heaviest tolls of the Mogul emperors.

We are told these officials only want to study our ailments for the public good, which is a comforting thought until you remember that the public good is usually whatever the fellow holding the clipboard says it is.

It is a measure of most excellent economy to treat the citizen’s body as a public ledger, for once a man’s infirmities are digitized, the state may efficiently project his date of expiration and adjust his taxes accordingly.