March 31, 2004
Michael C. Dorf: A Federal Appeals Court Bars Release of "Partial Birth" Abortion Records, And Offers an Interesting Perspective on Privacy Rights
"...It is easy to lose sight of this intuition--that anonymity does not ensure privacy--in crafting public policy for other contexts. In an era when nearly all of our private information can be obtained by Judge Posner's enterprising Googlers, there is a temptation to settle for anonymity, and forget about privacy. If we must provide our most intimate details to doctors or health insurance managers, let us do it as numbers rather than people, we say. Of course, anonymous disclosure is better than complete exposure. Yet Judge Posner reminds us that anonymity is at best a substitute for privacy. It's not the real thing."
Posted by fightingdem at March 31, 2004 10:04 AM | TrackBack
