At 05:11 PM 2/20/00 -0500, Petro wrote:
> You're brighter than that DCF. If, say, 20 years from now
>Insurance Companies get legal access to your shopping records that
>Mega-Chain-Food stores have, and they find out that you've been
>buying shrimp weekly, and that shrimp is proven to be a link to
>Alzheimers disease, so they deny your policy (or simply ammend to to
>cut out treatment for Alzhemiers).
Surely you don't argue with a private entity's obligation
to research its risks? If they ask about your drinking,
smoking, or shrimping behaviors, it would be fraud to deceive,
voiding any contract, no?
The issue here is, what is the privacy expected of your
purchasing data? The market could implement various
controls: customers would only use e.g., credit cards or grocery stores
which promised not to share data. This could be part of the contract you
sign when you give ID to a credit card co.
But I don't see an absolute right; can you explain it?
If your shrimp receipts were tossed in the trash, they could be
read when placed on the street. Fireplaces are as
much a part of cpunk architecture as the safe in the
wall or the tempest room.
