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Such a policy would require the consumer to explicitly give permission before a mer-
chant could share information about that consumer with another organization.
49.
While the cost of automobile insurance varies from person to person, based on the
driving record of each individual, health insurance premiums are typically uniform
across groups of people, such as all the employees of a company. However, a majority
of health care costs are incurred by a minority of the population.
Today it is possible to take a blood sample from a person and to extract a genetic
profile that reveals the person's disposition to certain diseases. Debate the proposition
that health insurance rates should be tailored to reflect each individual's propensity to
illness.
50.
Joe Herzenberg was a historian and politician, as well as the first openly gay elected of-
ficial in North Carolina. After he died in 2007, his papers, including correspondence,
photographs, diaries, and other materials, were donated to the Southern Historical Col-
lection (SHC). Herzenberg kept a record of his personal and professional accomplish-
ments and struggles in a series of diaries spanning more than 50 years. In the diaries,
“Herzenberg documents his sexual encounters and alludes to his friends' sexual rela-
tionships and illegal activities” [75].
According to Laura Clark Brown, “Most SHC collections are unrestricted for both
research and duplication in the SHC's search room. In that relatively controlled envi-
ronment, [the SHC transfers] the responsibilities for the use of sensitive materials to the
researcher” [75]. SHC librarians must decide whether they should digitize the contents
of Joe Herzenberg's diaries and make them available on the Web.
Debate the following proposition: The SHC librarians should not digitize the con-
tents of Joe Herzenberg's diaries until everyone mentioned in the diaries has either given
permission or died.
Elizabeth Alex and Mark Clegg. “Smartphone Pictures Pose Privacy Risks.”
KSHB/NBC Ac-
tion News
, November 9, 2010. 3:56.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2vARzvWxwY.
Maria Bartiromo. “Inside the Mind of Google.” CNBC, December 3, 2009. 43:09.
http://video
Robby Bryant and Bryan Horling. “Personalized Search.” Google, December 4, 2009. 1:32.
Charles Duhigg. “How Companies Learn Your Secrets.”
New York Times Magazine
, February
16, 2012.
Poppy Harlow. “My Private Life Revealed on the Web.”
CNNMoney Reports
, May 26, 2011.
2:39. money.cnn.com/video/.
Evan Ratliff. “Shedding Your Identity in the Digital Age.”
Wired,
December 2009.
Jeffrey Rosen. “The Web Means the End of Forgetting.”
New York Times
, July 21, 2010.
www
.nytimes.com.
