An argument against keeping health information private
Jonathan Zittrain embraces the future of the Internet to stop his mysterious disease
Harvard Law Professor Jonathan Zittrain, a specialist in electronic privacy, who wrote the book The Future of the Internet and How To Stop It, taught a very interesting life lesson in the past week about the benefits of sharing health information online. Fellow Harvard Law prof Lawrence Lessig co-taught.
Zittrain developed mysterious symptoms last week and doctors (at Harvard!) could not figure out what was wrong with him. He and Lessig open-sourced the diagnosing of the disease, and Internet denizens helped dig up an obscure Korean medical article that has proved extremely useful. Twitter and Boing Boing assisted.
Check out this post on Zittrain’s blog: The Future of Zittrain Has Not Been Stopped, or read this synopsis at the Los Angeles Times.
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This reminds me of the Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind skit known as the “In-Theater Pregnancy Test” where an unwitting female audience member would be called up onto the stage and told whether or not she was with child.
The democrats are planning to bypass and shred the Constitution to get this lunatic health bill passed…and you would trust them with your medical records?
As someone that read that book, I don’t recommend it.