As discussed in the lecture, not everything is given the same level of privacy protection in our society. This is true both legally and socially. Keeping this in mind, and using Slide 3 from the lecture as a reference, where would place healthcare information along that continuum? Why do you choose to put it where you did? Would you give certain pieces of healthcare information a greater expectation of privacy than others? Why? ( lesser expectation of privacy and greater expectation of privacy)
As discussed in the lecture, not everything is given the same level of privacy protection in our society. This is true both legally and socially. Keeping this in mind, and using Slide 3 from the lecture as a reference, where would place healthcare information along that continuum? Why do you choose to put it where you did? Would you give certain pieces of healthcare information a greater expectation of privacy than others? Why? ( lesser expectation of privacy and greater expectation of privacy)
Slide 3 from lectures:
It's also important to think of privacy as a continuum. So don't think of it like a light switch that turns on and off things or private or they're not private. Think of it more like a dimmer switch that you would have where some things are a little bit private and some things are extremely private. The best way that I can think of to illustrate this is using the sort of legal or law enforcement expectations of privacy. Those come from the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, which guards against, among other things, unreasonable search and seizure. And describes what police need to do in order to search something which is to look at it or see it, and to see something which is to take possession of it. And as far as the law and the law in this context is largely driven by what society views as less private and more private. So the law follows that. And in fact, the Supreme Court takes societal views of privacy into account when it has to determine, did a police officer overstep their bounds in this particular case versus another? So if we look at this, starting on the left-hand side where it says lesser expectation of privacy. Again, and this is a societal expectation as well as a legal expectation. So on the far left, the outside of your house from the street, you should not have a real expectation of privacy in that. So if you live like in Kent, for example, or in a city where there's a sidewalk in front of the house and maybe the houses like 30 feet from the road. And you see somebody walking down the street and they turn and look at your house. You don't have a legal expectation of privacy in that. And if you asked a 100 people on the street, 99 of them would probably say, yeah, you can't put a sign up that says, Don't look at my house. Like that would be ridiculous. People are going to have, they, I don’t wanna say, they have the right, but you shouldn't be feel violated if somebody looks at your house, now, somebody stands on the sidewalk and stares at your house. That's creepy. If somebody stands outside on the sidewalk with a pair of binoculars and tries to look in the window. That's a little, that's creepy. It's a little bit more creepy if somebody walks up onto the porch and they are ringing your doorbell. That's you may be interested as to why they're doing that. But you probably would not be seen as some violation of your privacy. But if they're on their tippy-toes trying to look through the little window in the door and they've got their hands cupped around their eyes to cut down the glare. And they're really trying to see in your house, while that's creepy and probably a violation of your personal privacy. Okay. So you can see even within the context of your house from the outside, there are different sort of levels of what is considered acceptable. Okay. Moving to the right. So who you called or texted. Now, you should know this, that your cell phone provider keeps records of the numbers that you dial, how what time of day you dial that number, and how long the call lasted. They keep track of the number that you texted and when. They also keep track of what the contact, the content of a particular text message was. So if you get detailed billing on your cell phone bill, it will show you all the calls that you may use to show texts. I don't know whether it's still does that there would be a 100 sheets paper now, it was recorded every taxed, but certainly within the computer they have that. So you do have an expectation of privacy in that. Verizon is not going to have a website where you can search a person's name and then see the numbers that they call their texted. So there's an expectation of privacy there. But police officers and law enforcement officials are able to go in without a warrant or anything. They're able to see the numbers that you called or texted to get the content of texts they need more. But you should not be like completely outraged that your phone company has a record of the numbers that you dialed because they just do.
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