[Brinworld] Car's data recorder convicts driver

Steve Schear schear at attbi.com
Wed Jun 18 13:03:32 PDT 2003


At 11:45 2003-06-18 -0500, Jamie Lawrence wrote:

>Anonymity (strong or not) is vastly important to secrecy.
>
>Medical data is a great example of this. It may be private, for some
>(weak) values of private, right now. Being John Doe at the doctor's
>office and paying cash, though, is vastly better in terms of
>assurance, at least until the doctor's business-cam interfaces
>with other databases. Too bad that works so poorly with insurance,
>but then worker insurance in the US is nearly a government program,
>anyway.

There may be a viable opportunity for an off-shore private medical 
insurance carrier which does not use your social security number as your 
identifier to the medical service provider.  Due to excessive U.S. fed and 
state insurance regulations many/most doctors might refuse to accept it (at 
least initially) it may be necessary for this insurance to operate "off 
network" so that subscribers would have to pay the care giver and be 
reimbursed.

steve 





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