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Big Brother Wants to Be Diet Cop

posted by:Todd Mandel // 06:48 PM // July 29, 2005 // Surveillance and social sorting

Wired News reports that New York city offiicals have proposed to monitor people with Diabetes and by "intervening ever so slightly in their care", improve their level of care and general health. Privacy advocates have responded with criticisms that, unlike contagious diseases, Diabates only affects the individual and is an intrusive entry into people's personal lives. Read the full article at:

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68301,00.html

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