From: blancw@pylon.com
To: mmarkley@microsoft.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-08 05:37:59 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 22:37:59 PDT
From: blancw@pylon.com
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 94 22:37:59 PDT
To: mmarkley@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: AIDs testing and privacy
Message-ID: <199409080538.WAA25986@deepthought.pylon.com>
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Responding to msg by Mike Markley:
What about being denied a job because you have been
treated for some disease? How about being denied a loan
because your medical history has a profile that
indicates that your life expectancy is shorter than the
duration of the loan? It seems that the potential for
abuse is so great that we should not allow such cross
referencing.
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Hey, Mike, just remember in the real world no one is required
to be kind. If some hospital or company makes a decision to
deny service for whatever reason they justify to themselves,
it's their call as long as they are not owned by the State.
They would likely make the same decisions upon receiving any
information which represented a potential loss of revenue,
whether that information came from special history files or
from a client's personal admission. Even though having
information about oneself passed around among agencies is
odious to contemplate, what a private company decides to do as
a consequence of their information is not really 'abuse'. (How
they get that information in the first place, however, could
be.)
Blanc
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