I know it's difficult to put toothpaste back in the tube, but to give up
will ensure it never gets
put back.
Tell Mr. McNealey he's part of the problem not the solution. Hello, he was
probably paid handsomely to
datamine al those records.
LarryT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - IBM Working to Integrate ALL Med Records
"There is no privacy any more. Get over it."
*Scott McNealy Chairman and Co-Founder, Sun Microsystems
(http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/executives/mcnealy/bio.jsp )
*
*Jan 1998 or so, Lotusphere, Orlando FL*
--R
LarryT wrote:
Just saw a disturbing TV commercial (History Channel) where dozens of
white robed technicans talk about what they are working on. Seems they
want to create a huge database that puts medical records, insurance
records, hospital records, etc etc where *everything* talks to everything
else! Don't know about you, but this doesn't sound like the greatest
idea. Sure, it may make the insurance business more profitible, but at
the expense of patient privacy! We've had a regular diet of reports of
credit card information being lost or stolen when hard drives are given
away, lost or stolen. That's *very* bad. But medical records being out
there for all to see is even worse IMHO.
Yet here they are, all those IBM technicians proudly boasting they are
working toward the goal of total integration of
your life's total body of information.
Am I being too paranoid? I mean, I don't have to worry about finding a
job anymore, but someone with a family history of heart disease or cancer
may not get hired if that info is readily available.
It seems the govt wants to eventually create an electronic record of each
person in this world -- driving records, working reccords, health
records, tax records, family records, - everything. Sure sounds like
1984 to me. Loss of pivacy is one thing - having faceless bureaucrats
crawling through every facet of my families' life is not something I want
happening. It may surprise you to learn they're not ALL honest.
The computer has brought us great convienence but it has the ability to
cause great harm also.
LarryT
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