Plopping down on a mattress, primping in front of a mirror or sitting on a toilet: In coming years, any of these activities could generate the most intimate data about your health, via sensors, wearables, machine-learning algorithms and data-mining systems. Though they promise to make health care more personalized, our nonstop interactions with digital technologies and analytics are upending traditional notions of patient confidentiality.

Source: Wall Street Journal September 10, 2020 15:00 UTC