The NSA is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking
"Some prostate cancers grow so slowly that they never become life-threatening, especially in elderly men who may die of other causes before the cancer causes problems," explained Wong. "But other men develop complications and die from their cancer making
"Just as a failure to treat a potentially lethal prostate cancer is generally considered inappropriate from a quality-of-care perspective, overtreatment of lower-risk cancers is also not in the patient's best interest"...