Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...against as a result of genetic testing. None of them were actually sick, but DNA analysis suggested that they might become sick someday. "The technology is getting ahead of our ethics," says Nagel, and the Clinton Administration clearly agrees. It is about to propose a federal law that would protect medical and health-insurance records from such abuses...
...Technology has outpaced law," says Marc Rotenberg, director of the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center. Rotenberg advocates protecting the privacy of E-mail by encrypting it with secret codes so powerful that even the National Security Agency's supercomputers would have a hard time cracking it. Such codes are legal within the U.S. but cannot be used abroad--where terrorists might use them to protect their secrets--without violating U.S. export laws. The battle between the Clinton Administration and the computer industry over encryption export policy has been raging for six years without resolution, a situation that is making...
...Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor. Character assassination, like everything else online, happens at warp speed, which is why some say there's no way to correct damage to one's reputation--or protect one's privacy...
Efforts to protect the elderly are picking up. Senior Sleuths, formed in 1989 by the Florida attorney general's office, deploys 550 people in sting operations to gather evidence against scammers. A.A.R.P. has mounted a reverse boiler-room operation in several states. It phones seniors to warn them that their names appear on mooch lists confiscated by police...
...wanted to protect our children from being ravaged by tobacco," said Governor Lawton Chiles. He could hardly stop smiling after today's decision, and with good reason: The companies agreed to pay Florida $11.3 billion to settle the state's lawsuit to recover the costs of caring for sick smokers. After weeks of testimony that included the admission by Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible that smoking "might" be responsible for as many as 100,000 deaths, Big Tobacco has packed up and left this state. Next stop: Washington, D.C., where the $368 billion national settlement remains to be renegotiated...