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Alex Rosenblat

Alex is a technical writer at Data & Society. She can be seen @mawnikr and around NYC. She’s interested in the intersection of law and society.

 

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Mental Health Surveillance: There’s an App for That

What happens to all the data trails we leave in our digital wake? What kinds of precautions should we take with our health data? How do we bake a ‘Do No Harm’ Hippocratic ethic into health technologies? And what are the trade-offs between improving care and increasing surveillance?