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[Stephen Wilson]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
>  On 03/03/2010, at 9:46 AM, Stephen Wilson wrote:
> > The real issue is that it is against the law for anyone to exercise
> > their curiosity and peek at the records of another.
>
>  Social behaviours are not always thwarted by the imposition of laws....
>  For anyone to suggest what 'the real issue is' only convinces me
>  that it is not, or that it demands deeper examination.

That's a fair point in the general, but in my defence, I was trying to 
stress that what matters most in this particular case is that staff were 
breaking the law by peeking at records.  Judging by the way Ivan you 
prefaced your response to Juanita with "perhaps" [the Medicare breach is 
scary], I thought that your examination of the reasons for curiosity was 
deflecting from the fact that privacy laws were broken.

Cheers,

Stephen Wilson
Lockstep
www.lockstep.com.au