There’s a book called Gamechanger by L.X. Beckett that explores the idea of a society that is completely open with zero privacy. Your life is always watched and anyone and everyone can see. Pretty much the only thing left private is thoughts. It was an interesting read and my only wish was that the author had explored the negatives and struggles of a fully transparent society more as I feel like this was glossed over too much.

Will it work running in a VM with pass through?

I don’t feel like this adequately accounts for stupid people though. The number of times I’ve seen people freak out over a perfectly legit website because a cert warning popped up or others who have ignored the warning and clicked through to a scam or malware… 🤦‍♀️

You do realise that most medical research these days is for-profit? The only thing opening these databases to medical research will do is increase the profit lining the pockets of the already mega wealthy (and corrupt) industrial medical complex.

If you want to get really technical, each Signal account actually has a ‘secret’ account number that the phone number is linked to. The phone number requirement is actually a means to reduce spam and scam accounts.