The most important blog I wrote in February 2022 is The Personal Data Big Healthcare Wants From Job Applicants.
We seriously underestimate how much corporations—including healthcare corporations—see us as data sources. We also underestimate their unshakable belief that they are entitled to every possible bit of data about us.
Does applying for a job as a receptionist at a healthcare organization give that organization the right to our home IP address and our search history and our voice data and our “olfactory” data and our purchase history?
Does it also give them the right to use this data—and any other data they can find about us on the web—to psychologically profile us?
Corporations gleefully shout out “Yes!”
Yet, although this may be their legal right, it is not their moral one.
I doubt there is anything we the people (also known to corporations as “we the raw data sources”) can do to slow down this data-grab. The horse has left the barn.
But I do think whenever they talk proudly about their HIPAA and DEI efforts we should ask them point-blank about what they feel their rights are in regards to the data they collect from us.