PKC

[Owen Blacker]

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Moving somewhat off-topic, I'm not sure that the level of detail you
suggest would *ever* be considered ethical, however.  Take the
example of the HIV pandemic and move back to the early/mid '80s --
would you really consider it appropriate to compel the release of
details of who's slept with whom?  AFAIAA, all the HIV workers I know
would probably disagree with you and I can't think of another way in
which your comments could be interpreted...

Anonymised data should, of course, be made available.  Indeed, I can
get these data already -- I subscribe to the CDC newsletters (/MMWR/
weekly; /MMWR HIV/, /EID/ and /HIV Serosurveillance/ less frequently)
which are conveniently delivered to me by email which are emailed to
me.

Am I missing your point?   :o)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Brown [mailto:k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 1:48 PM
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk; cyber-rights-UK@cyber-rights.org
> Subject: Re: PKC

[deletia]

> The big exception is obviously epidemiology/disease control where,
> for interests of public health & self-defence society (or at any
> rate the government) might need to demand personal data, which
> could be just notification but might be as detailed as who ate what
> or who slept with whom. These issues are going to get more
> important as infectious disease once again becomes more significant
> (in rich countries - the poor didn't have our 50 year antibiotic
> holiday from serious infection of course).  There are perhaps
> circumstances in which it is right for public bodies to demand full
> details of an infection & so would in the limit have to be able to
> force medical professionals  to divulge details of patients (cue
> old Typhoid Mary films...)  
> 
> Ken

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