Agree there is plenty room for concern. I guess the real question is where it ranks among the other privacy attacks going on today. While I have the same concerns as others here, this one at least has the potential to do some good. And that's a lot more than can be said for most invasions we have seen the last few years.
Getting sort of hard to know our enemy/friends - and when they change? thurman > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardhats- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy Anthracite > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:00 PM > To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Hardhats-members] Big brother is alive and well and living in > NYC > > I consider this to be an unconscionable invasion of privacy. I know you > do > not all agree, but think about the potential to abuse large databases of > health records if this can happen. > > Where are the lawyers when you need them. > > ------------------------------------------------- > New York City To Monitor Patients With Diabetes > ------------------------------------------------- > The New York City Board of Health on Wednesday voted unanimously to > implement > a diabetes monitoring program that would require laboratories to > electronically forward detailed blood sugar test results to the city's > health > department, the New York Times reports. > > http://www.ihealthbeat.org/index.cfm?Action=dspItem&itemID=117612 > -- > Nancy Anthracite > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log > files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Hardhats-members mailing list > Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
