From: Mats Bergstrom <matsb@sos.sll.se>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 94 06:57:42 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Health Care Privacy Alert
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Duncan Frissell wrote:

> There's no way you can have a government-directed, third-party-paid, health
> care "system" without throwing privacy out the window. Bureaucracies *keep*
> records, they don't destroy them.

Yes, this is a lesson history tells us. But maybe, theoretically, strong
crypto could make a change. Nested information with keys known only to
parties with legitimate interest in a specific info layer and the master
key only known to the patient and programs for self destruction (including
backups) of data no longer needed. I repeat, theoretically that is.

Mats