Medical records
- Medical records: Is this the biggest risk? Why?
- Whose interests do physicians have to protect?
- Whose interests do insurance companies have to protect?
- Whose interests do drug companies have to protect?
- Whose interests do hiring officials have to protect when
considering a new hire?
- Have you ever heard of the MIB?
Mailing lists
- Do you ever want to opt in?
- Did you ever opt out?
- What volume of junk mail do you get in a week? How much
is appropriate to your interests?
- Garfinkle doesn't talk much about telephone calls
or door-to-door solicitation. How much of a problem are these?
Information ownership
- Garfinkle argues that legislation is the answer, not
property laws. This is because of the inherent difficulties of
managing any sort of personal information ownership. What
do you think? Should people have owner status for information
about them?
- Let's put the concerns about medicine together with concerns
about information ownership: what about the human genome? See the NIH for
background reading, and Celera
for information about the people who first sequenced a human genome.
What new risks will occur when the genome is fully mapped? What if
people's DNA are sampled and databased at birth (as occurs for US
soldiers and others)? What surreptious means for accessing DNA
information might be used in the future?
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