Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 24th Jun 2009 21:45 UTC
I'm sorry, but I can't get around it any more. Over the weekend, we had a story in the reputable Wall Street Journal that Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago in a hospital in Tennessee. This story got all over the Apple media - obviously - and was later confirmed by the hospital in question. All the usual questions arose about privacy, Warren Buffet had a remark about it, and so on. Let's get all these stories out of the way in one go.
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You are a public figure. Lets put a camera in your bedroom so we can get an idea of what your mood was when you wrote your last story.
Had you invested a large sum of money in OSNews, and had I been the figure who brought OSNews back from sure demise to a super-successful website in the top 20 of most-visited websites, and had OSNews made me the sole public face and figure for the website...
...then yeah, you'd have a right to know what was going on with me that could incapacitate me for OSNews.
RE[2]: Healthcare privacy
by Moochman on Thu 25th Jun 2009 13:19
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Member since:2005-07-06
I wish you would stop throwing around that word "right".
Who is it that decides exactly what degree of importance a person has to a company? Who decides at exactly what point they are "rockstarish" enough for them to disclose every little detail?
Your logic, predicated on a bunch of ephemeral "if" statements, simply doesn't hold up to anything remotely approximating law.
So please, stop using the word "right".
What people are in fact *legally* granted is the right to privacy, and the right not to have to disclose medical records.
Edited 2009-06-25 13:20 UTC
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2006-05-19
As a long time employee of a healthcare company I can only see this as a privacy issue. Yes, Mr. Jobs is a public figure and the stock holders have rights, but do you really think their rights extend to the most personal parts of his life? Is the stock holders money more important than Mr. Jobs' life decisions? Where do you draw the line? Should there be web cameras in Mr. Jobs' house so the stock holders can check up on their investment? How about the author of this story? You are a public figure. Lets put a camera in your bedroom so we can get an idea of what your mood was when you wrote your last story.