Big Tech Won’t Make Health Care Any Better
Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in 2019 that his company’s greatest achievement will be “about health.” But the pandemic has shown that Big Tech’s involvement in health care is all about data collection.
Anna-Verena Nosthoff is a political theorist, codirector of the Data Politics Lab at Humboldt University of Berlin, affiliated researcher at the Institute of Network Cultures, and coauthor of Die Gesellschaft der Wearables (Nicolai, 2019).
Apple CEO Tim Cook claimed in 2019 that his company’s greatest achievement will be “about health.” But the pandemic has shown that Big Tech’s involvement in health care is all about data collection.