Tag Archives: privacy
Are Your Medical Photographs on the Internet? Part 2
Zach Patterson, Zack Marshall, and a grade 8 class in Calgary replicate a study showing the availability of patient photographs from medical case studies on the open internet.
Beyond Compliance: Ethics in the Context of Privacy
Dylan McKibbon argues that the concept of privacy has been long misunderstood and ought to be elevated to the status of a core bioethical principle to be regarded as a cornerstone of bioethical activity.
Crimes against Humanity in Xinjiang and the Crisis in Forensic Genetics
Mark Munsterhjelm raises alarm about the complicity of researchers and suppliers in forensic genetics in the Chinese government’s repression of Indigenous peoples in Xinjiang.
Bill S-231 & DNA Evidence: Effective Tool or Discrimination?
Erin Kenny, Katharina Clausius, and Michael J. Crawford detail how the expanded use of DNA profile databases and genealogy in criminal investigations offers powerful tools to solve crimes and exculpate innocents but also risks permanently stigmatizing genetic relatives.
The Privacy Paradox and Duty to Warn
Kathy Hodgkinson and Daryl Pullman propose that high risk/high recurrence genetic diseases should come under the purview of public health.
Impact Ethics 