> it needs to genuinely not be possible to correlate back to an individual
What you say is a theoretical goal. In practice, despite good efforts, there is no hard rule imposed by reality that 100% of records will totally remain anonymized.
Maybe it's unclear why I've brought this up. I understand it's not possible to keep everything locked down in a way that prevents my information from leaking.
And as unfortunate as that is, that's not my concern with your original comment.
I do not want that problem made worse. I don't care if it's already kind of bad. I have no idea why the problem already being bad would justify making it worse.
I guess you forgot the part where you're a mortal human, and where biomedical data helps discover patterns to solve problems. Just you wait until you get old. Also forgot the part about exposing statewide corruption wrt claims.
I'm not interested in your snark. I'm aware of my mortality and of statewide corruption. Those are not good reasons to publish my health data publicly even in an anonymized form. The people who might be able to fix my mortality are already allowed to have my data (whether I'm happy or not about that is moot as you've made clear yourself). That does not change my belief that the scheme you propose for "exposing statewide corruption" is a bad idea.
You mean the ones that license it commercially? Their interest is not in fixing you; it is in exploiting you and your wallet, so please remember the distinction.
To really fix it (you), access to that data needs to be democratized. But since people (you) don't want that to happen, I guess mortality will remain in the cards. In the end, people (you) get what you deserve.
What you say is a theoretical goal. In practice, despite good efforts, there is no hard rule imposed by reality that 100% of records will totally remain anonymized.