I am not sure I quite understand the purpose of this entire methodology, but is this company trying to re-invent themselves are insurers do? Again, speaking from what is published and what I have read, are we trying to make use of data that has already been accumulated, queried in a different fashion...
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De-identification of data base material, it’s all in a query and who’s running it. As far as I know, it’s not illegal to run queries and when matches are made, one has the rap sheet on any one of us. De-identified data bases are marketed and sold all the time for all types of purposes, genomic...
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