When is enough loss of our privacy enough?

I first spotted this on Boing Boing
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Killing Two Birds with One Stone

Solution to Airport Security, Health Care Woes

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) In what some in the White House are calling a "win/win" solution to the nation's airport security and health care reform problems, starting next month U.S. airports will begin conducting full body scans that will double as annual physical checkups.

Read the whole post HERE.
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Protect the Privacy of Your Health Records

Also from The ACLU. Click here to jump to their "Take Action" web page.

Earlier this year, the economic stimulus bill contained mandates for converting paper health records into electronic data systems and called for strong privacy protections of those records.

But now, as the Department of Health and Human Services writes the detailed regulations to guide this process, there's a real risk that your privacy won't be protected after all.

That's because powerful special interests are lobbying heavily for regulations that give hospitals and insurance companies -- not patients -- control over how personal medical information is used. This could leave you with no process for blocking access to critical information such as the results of HIV/AIDS tests and eventually, no way to correct false information in your medical records or see who is reviewing those records.

Events are moving quickly. So now is the time to make your voice heard. Send a "protect my privacy" message to Dr. David Blumenthal, the HHS official in charge of this process.

>>Take Action: Tell HHS we need real patient control of personal health data in our electronic medical records!

It's Cool - Until It Happens To Them

From Boing Boing (click on the link to see the whole post).

Last year U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a public speech questioning the need for more privacy protections.

This year a Fordham University law professor teaching a course on privacy gave his class the project of turning up publicly available information on Scalia.

The fifteen-page dossier completely flipped Scalia out.