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No, it's not OK for the government to use your prescription details to recruit you for a study

  • Written by Bruce Baer Arnold, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
When pursuing information for big data projects, the risks to individual autonomy and privacy are easily overlooked.Shutterstock

The department of human services (DHS) is under scrutiny this week after the Nine papers revealed the department sent letters to 50,000 patients who were previously prescribed lithium. DHS was seeking to recruit the...

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