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by bilbo0s 2410 days ago
Totally agree.

Last thing we should do is have radically open medical data. Some busybody parent could go out and search all the kids in in her kids' school who might have HIV or something. Or imagine all the crazies out there searching for a list of women in their town who have had abortions.

The only thing you do with open medical data is ratchet up the "crazy" in society. In an ideal world where everyone is rational, it's fine. But that world doesn't exist.