People who do not need to know my medical info, an incomplete list:

[azurelunatic]

So there is a thing going around the interwebs that attributes the concept that if health insurance discrimination were not a thing, people would be okay with their medical records being open access to some google big wheel.

This is not reflecting reality. Allow me to demonstrate.


Mama doesn't need to know about the STD scare I had in college while banging Shawn and he had collected a new partner.

It is none of my co-workers' business whether I am on the Pill or not.

People have weird ideas about mental illness. There are places and times I don't talk about even my depression, not to mention the more exotic shit.

In particular, that well-meaning lady from the shooting range knows jack and shit, and I don't feel like educating her.

Every now and then I run into someone who is way more into me than I am to them. Medical info is just one more thing they don't need as fuel to make a nuisance of themselves.

And then the blowhards who think because they once knew someone with the condition, this makes them more of an expert than the person living with it & their doctor combined.

Various people who used to bully me don't get anything they could possibly use.

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[asciident]

I don't even really have medical records that aren't at least a decade out of date, and I certainly think open access to them would not be okay, insurance discrimination or not. Google et al can just be satisfied with guessing if my search history applies to my physical condition.

[azurelunatic]

If I had something painful like a bad miscarriage in mine, I am pretty sure I would not want people I barely know or don't like to feel it was an acceptable line of conversation.

And hell, even without insurance discrimination, employment discrimination would happen. Consider the chronic migraine.

[siderea]

Also targeting for crimes. A google mashup map of incidence of arthritis in a community is a treasure map of poorly defended caches of vics, percs, and oxies for desperate junkies. Oh, want benzos instead? Check out PTSD and GAD to see which houses to burglarize (or armed invasion, take your pick). Out of smack? Find out who in your neighborhood is on methodone or suboxone by looking up "Opioid Dependence".

Someone has not thought this through.

[azurelunatic]

Oh god, I had not even thought of that.

Someone has really not.

[norabombay]

OOOH, and you forgot the obvious one: people, who for -whatever- reason had an abortion.

Put that on the map, an give an asshole protest group five minutes. Triple points for possible ex partners who were not informed.

[azurelunatic]

Because getting murdered by your ex is totally how you want to start your day.

[pauamma]

My search history is as useless as TMN and me(*), working together, can make it. (Sometimes, what TMN searches for on my behalf scares me, when I see it in the status line.)

(*) What Google gets that's genuinely from me is occasional searches for which DuckDuckGo didn't turn up anything useful. Other search engines only get TMN queries.

[asciident]

If Google is actually making guesses about me based on search, it must think I'm genuinely fucked up. :) I search all kinds of things, from things affecting me to things I read about or heard on TV or whatever.