Naked Before the World

摘要

Whom, exactly, do you want to know about your heart defect? Your family's history of breast cancer? Or that embarrassing brush with venereal disease 15 years ago? If you're like most people, you wouldn't be eager to give such information to a prospective boss or health insurer. Soon you may not have a say in the matter. Your secrets are well on their way to becoming common knowledge, readily summoned by a few computer keystrokes. An alarming array of companies is already busily culling information from consumers' medical records.