Professor Sweeney proved this in a rather cheeky way when William Weld, a former governor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the US decided to support the commercial release of 135,000 state employee health records along with their families, including his own.
Pr Sweeney a démontré ses recherches avec un brin d'humour lorsque l'ex-gouverneur du Massachusetts,  William Weld a soutenu l'exploitation les données de santé des 135 000 employés de l'administration et de leur famille, la sienne incluse.