If you want to ask every person in an anonymized database for consent, yes

Jfc you tankie, just because someone makes money from selling medication, do you really think the person receiving the medication is sad about the existence of the medication? You are literally saying “let’s not cure or prevent diseases because someone could make money from it”, how removed can you be

Also, I was talking about state funded medical research into how the spread of contagious diseases could be halted, which would only have resulted in regulatory actions. That’s just one example. Get your head out of your own ass

This is not about consent but about databases that already exist and that could be anonymized easily, treasure troves of data for medical research, but even anonymously that data can’t be used because of stupid red tape

Privacy matters, but it is really not good in its current shape. For example, it seriously hinders scientific research into contagious diseases because a lot of data of patients is incredibly hard to get or work on. There’s a lot more that could be done against epidemics if it wasn’t for the GDPR in its current shape.

I got my meta quest 2 working on Linux, so you should definitely just try :)

His full name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin now, though (for real.) It’s kind of disrespectful not to use it.