Health data is increasingly seen as a highly valuable commodity to be traded and collected by companies to fuel their analytics or advertising.

This article summarises Privacy International's view on why a rights based approach to digital health is needed for privacy. 

Private companies, including Big Tech, are responsible for a large number of digital health tools. While there may be benefits to health, there are also potential threats to your privacy from these initiatives.

In this piece, we outline some of these tools and give some examples of Big Tech involvement in digital health and consider what sort of future a Big Tech dominated vision of digital health might hold for your rights, your autonomy and our society

Governments have been digitising their health systems and, more broadly, healthcare. We dive into the right to health situated in the digital context, exploring the digital health initiatives that put patients' data and freedoms at risk.

New research from our partners at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) reveals Indian health websites and apps are sharing intimate health-related data with third parties such as Facebook and Google.