Rob Verkerk

… the global data revolution is well and truly here and continues to grow at warp speed. History books tell us over and again that as soon as a new commodity becomes highly valued, corruption, greed and exploitation will surface. Guaranteed.

… While you might still be reeling from the sheer scale of the numbers relating to data that are now, or soon will be, shared across the internet, it is health data – and medical data – that will soon become the most precious of all commodities … The reason is simple for the architects of the fourth industrial revolution: the more you know about people, the more you’re able to control them.