Suppose X is committed to a mental hospital as a teenager, receives help, and is able to carry on a relatively normal adult life. Then Y, a "crooked" medic with access to medical records, decides to look for blackmail targets and discovers X's record. Y calls X and threatens to tell Z, X's boss, unless X pays Y a lot of money.
Is this an argument against keeping medical records? In fact, you seem to be implying the same argument that opponents of gun ownership make, the one by which something that can be misused ought to be banned outright.
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com>wrote:
> Would anyone object to the government keeping TABS on
>> people like Zimmerman?
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> What could possibly go wrong with such a system?
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> NYC cases show how crooked officers misuse FBI database for cyber
> snooping, other offenses
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> Article by: TOM HAYS , Associated Press Updated: July 7, 2013 - 11:25 AM
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> NEW YORK - It's billed by the FBI as "the lifeline of law enforcement" - a
> federal database used to catch criminals, recover stolen property and even
> identify terrorism suspects.
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> But authorities say Edwin Vargas logged onto the restricted system and ran
> names for reasons that had nothing to do with his duties as a New York
> Police Department detective. Instead, he was accused in May of looking up
> personal information on two fellow officers without their knowledge.
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