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# Privacy and Digital Health: Causes for Concern and a Way Forward 🔏
- URL: https://news.opioidpolicy.org/jam-april-2025/
- Published: 2025-04-19T11:14:29.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-19T11:14:29.000Z
- Author: Jonathan JK Stoltman (PhD)
- Tags: Digital Health, Research

Our recent invited commentary about surveillance capitalism in addiction digital health. We make bold calls for corrective action and leadership on this issue. Read more [**here**](https://pdfs.journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/9900/privacy%5Fand%5Fdigital%5Fhealth%5F%5Fcauses%5Ffor%5Fconcern%5Fand.493.pdf?token=method|ExpireAbsolute;source|Journals;ttl|1745027871547;payload|mY8D3u1TCCsNvP5E421JYK6N6XICDamxByyYpaNzk7FKjTaa1Yz22MivkHZqjGP4kdS2v0J76WGAnHACH69s21Csk0OpQi3YbjEMdSoz2UhVybFqQxA7lKwSUlA502zQZr96TQRwhVlocEp/sJ586aVbcBFlltKNKo+tbuMfL73hiPqJliudqs17cHeLcLbV/CqjlP3IO0jGHlHQtJWcICDdAyGJMnpi6RlbEJaRheGeh5z5uvqz3FLHgPKVXJzdFXlpSDJoxKo3eZRp1wP2vge6rTsYxtNe0I1+ptemb3YfhpHyf4AwUCy++8mtOF1D;hash|OjrWbJ+XUX5Z3QPG4WUNtQ==):

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