The commercialization of patient data in Canada: ethics, privacy and policy

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In Canada, commercial data brokers are currently able to use deidentified patient data from pharmacies, private drug insurers, the federal government and medical clinics without patient consent. They are able to do this because of a lack of privacy protections for deidentified data. A

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