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Scenario: Analog/Digital-Divide

Debora Weber-Wulff & Stefan Ullrich

Matthias and Melanie have known each other since college. While Matthias was studying medicine, Melanie was studying computer science. They met while working on university committees and soon moved in together. After graduation, Matthias took a job in public health for altruistic reasons. Melanie has an excellent job […]

Scenario: Sensitive Health Data

Stefan Ullrich, Constanze Kurz

Chris was in desperate need of money, and answered on online ad for a call center. It was an interesting job, and she didn’t even have to drive to work, she could do the work from home using her own computer. The company paid her a flat-rate for Internet […]

Scenario: Genetic Data

Debora Weber-Wulff

[A real case]

A company was started in Iceland in 1996 and was working on determining genetic markers for specific diseases. When the human genome was sequenced in 2003 the company began storing the data for all of the inhabitants of Iceland.

There are only 300.000 inhabitants and they are quite […]

Scenario: Personal Health Records

Debora Weber-Wulff

Personal Health Records are all the rage. Do you remember what X-rays you have had or the names of the medicines that you regularly use? What were your blood cholesterol levels last year?

The company Health & More offers a personal online health record that provides a complete and accurate summary […]