Re: Protocols for Insurance to Maintain Privacy

Two ways to tell if the person has had the test:

A) The company performing the test keeps track of everyone who has had it.
This could be by some biometric ID, perhaps even a DNA fingerprint.

B) The company performing the test marks people who have had it.  They
could have a harmless radioactive tracer injected.  This would degrade
after a while but it could be used to see if the test had been taken
within some time interval.

Both of these require that all companies able to issue the test cooperate
and that there is no black market source of testing.

On Thu, 6 Nov 1997, Anonymous wrote:

> Two ways to tell if the person has had the test:
> 
> A) The company performing the test keeps track of everyone who has had it.
> This could be by some biometric ID, perhaps even a DNA fingerprint.
> 
> B) The company performing the test marks people who have had it.  They
> could have a harmless radioactive tracer injected.  This would degrade
> after a while but it could be used to see if the test had been taken
> within some time interval.

Something on your palm changes color.

> 
> Both of these require that all companies able to issue the test cooperate
> and that there is no black market source of testing.
> 
> 

For $1,000,000 a pop, there WILL be a black market.

The best "black market" scam would be set up by the insurer, to 
surreptitiously determine who not to insure. YOU think you're getting 
tested on the sly, and you are actually paying extra to compromise your 
insurability.

-r.w.