No, what I’m arguing is that many people draw a distinction between the public good and private return. The question is, who benefits? Is it a state health department that collects medical information as part of a set of public health data to predict the need for services, or monitor epidemics, or a researcher working with large data sets to develop new treatments or evaluate current practices? Or is the user a hospital or device manufacturer or insurance company that uses this information purely in order to maximize profit? The first case involves the public good, and the second, private good. Most people are happy to donate their data to medical research or public health, but they don’t even know their information is being used in other ways, to improve the bottom line for private companies. Shouldn’t they know?