Amazon recently expanded its employee

Health Insurance HIPAA and effectively grant the tech giant access to your most intimate information. The legality of this is something that is currently under review by the Federal Trade Commission . In February of this year Amazon further expanded its healthcare portfolio by acquiring One Medical a company that offers personalized online and appbased primary care in more than cities and metropolitan regions in the United States. One of its subprograms Mindset by One Medical focuses specifically on mental health offering patients virtual help with conditions such as stress anxiety depression ADHD and insomnia in online group settings and with oneonone coaching.



In addition to its latest moves with Amazon Clinic and One Medical  healthcare offerings Russia Mobile Number List partnering with Maven Clinic the worlds largest virtual clinic for womens and family health. Aiming to expand to countries beyond the United States and Canada the partnership with Maven Clinic will give Amazon lucrative access to some of its most intimate and vulnerable data sets.









The general dangers of this data being hoarded by commercial agents who in certain circumstances will be happy to pass it on to national or local state authorities are clear take a look for example at the Nebraska teenager who was convicted in the summer of for violating her states abortion law after Facebook and Google made her private messages and browsing data available to police. The colonization of mental health data The dizzying attempts by Amazon Meta Apple and Alphabet to get a foothold in mental health go beyond just disruption. The true scale of this transformation must be understood within the framework of historys largest campaign to annex neverbeforeexploited resources colonialism. Under the guise of companies working to alleviate peoples mental health instabilities a basic form of asset grabbing is underway. After all until recently the very idea that our mental healthall the data that represents and tracks itcould be a trading asset on a balance sheet would have seemed strange. But today it is becoming common.