Comments on: Third-Party Data Sales: Pay the Source. http://kenklaser.gaiastream.com/2005/02/19/third-party-data-sales-pay-the-source/ thoughts, ramblings, and rants Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:11:18 -0500 hourly 1 By: Barbara http://kenklaser.gaiastream.com/2005/02/19/third-party-data-sales-pay-the-source/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Barbara Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:40:13 +0000 http://kenklaser.gaiastream.com/?p=25#comment-12 <p>Your post made me think of a book I heard about years ago but haven't yet read, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=mystenovelbyb-20&path=tg/detail/-/0788163590/">The Right to Privacy</a> by Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman. (Although your post isn't about privacy, but information ownership.)</p> <p>It bothered me when it was decided that corporations could own genetic information about people. Each person's DNA is, after all, unique, and if anyone makes a profit off that uniqueness, it should be the individual who's born with it.</p> <p>Thanks for making me think.</p> Your post made me think of a book I heard about years ago but haven’t yet read, The Right to Privacy by Caroline Kennedy and Ellen Alderman. (Although your post isn’t about privacy, but information ownership.)

It bothered me when it was decided that corporations could own genetic information about people. Each person’s DNA is, after all, unique, and if anyone makes a profit off that uniqueness, it should be the individual who’s born with it.

Thanks for making me think.

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