Chinese investment in the U.S. biotechnology industry presents a risk to national security, potentially giving China’s government access to patient data that could be used to blackmail Americans, according to a report for a Congressional advisory commission.
Biotech companies in China have access to technology and data through investments in U.S. companies, partnerships with American universities and recruitment of U.S.-trained researchers, the report for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said.
“Chinese biotechnology companies are acquiring technologies crucial to advancement in the field as well as amassing large collections of clinical and genetic data on U.S. residents,” the report published Feb. 14 said.
Can they really blackmail you with medical information you've already mentioned on social media?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday February 16 2019, @01:02PM (6 children)
Can NSA still blackmail you if the Chinese already know about? (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @03:09PM (3 children)
Well... I guess I'll have to have my medical record of having hemorrhoids sealed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @03:24PM
[laughs in PRC]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday February 17 2019, @01:43AM
If you ever have to file a worker's comp claim, then your employer's insurer can legally request your medical history due to changes in HIPAA laws. If you hurt your back due to an unsafe working environment then they can pull your medical record as part of the claim adjudication process, see that you have hemorrhoids, and then make the determination that some or all of the blame for the injury is foisted on you because perhaps your hemorrhoids caused you to sit or move the wrong way.
There's also the intimidation factor of having to reveal private information to people who make their living stalling claims and being hostile to their contractor's employees.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday February 17 2019, @11:52AM
What do you use to seal hemorrhoids? Just curious, you know.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:00PM (1 child)
Everyone already knows about small hands...does that count?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:12PM
It feels like the Russians managed to actually squeeze a small blackmail.
Not sure on what, may not have been the hands, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @03:19PM (1 child)
Yes. That's right. You read that correctly.
In Australia the government outsourced the Bowel Cancer Screening Register to the National phone company
Said company had zero experience with health systems, so it went out and purchased some.
WTF, right?
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday February 16 2019, @03:54PM
Crikey dingo ate my baby!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:02PM (1 child)
They have that Right to be Forgotten thing, right?
That'll fix that data the Chinese stole...POOF, the data is GONE!
...
.....right?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:35PM
The way that rigth works in China, is that your data is forgotten at the same time as your existence.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:17PM (1 child)
Try to extort money from me based on my medical history - I'll give you the finger, then when you "use" that information against me I can turn my case over to any decent lawfirm to recover treble damages from the party that hurt me financially based on my medical history.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:03PM
The extortion comes when your insurance is raised or hospital bills are padded
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:13PM (1 child)
... I will admit that I have a small penis.
You may now begin the mocking and derision.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @08:40PM
I plead insanity. Can't blackmail the mentally insane!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @09:23PM
some other chinaman already balckmailed me! he said he caught me "fudging" and that if i didn't pay up he'd pout me to my social media friends! so of course i rushed him the money and since i never saw any fudging videos on my facebook i guess he was a chinaman of his word.