How Big Tech – especially Digital Health – is eroding the social contract   Caroline Molloy Big Tech and its applications are often hailed as a way of democratizing healthcare. But who is really benefitting from Big Tech’s increasing involvement in public services such as health? And does a focus on the privacy implications of the Big Tech revolution cause us to overlook its social impacts? In her 2015 book Reclaiming Conversation, Sherry Turkle describes ‘one of the most gut-wrenching moments in my then fifteen years of research on sociable robotics’, one which ‘changed her mind’ after years as an enthusiastic advocate of the emancipatory potential of connected technologies: One day I saw an older woman who had lost a