Re: Health Care Privacy Alert

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