Assignment #2: Privacy Please

Our medical records should be all digitally stored online for all medical professionals to access within the hospital when needed.
Arguments For: By storing all medical records online, it can speed up the process of getting the patient's information It would clear up space in the hospital that could be used to install new technology or be used for something that is needed If anyone could access the information so easily, it could help save for more lives as other doctors might come across a patients CT and know exactly what is wrong, which the other doctor might not of known Can be very beneficial in emergency situations, especially when the patient can't speak for themselves to say "I'm allergic to penicillin", if the patient name is known the file will immediately come up showing that information
 Arguments Against: Hackers could potentially hack in and steal the information or change it, resulting in bad incomes If the hospital only has all the information on one set of computers, all information could be wiped clean and all would be lost If everyone can access it, that takes away the patient privacy notion as anybody in the hospital can see it even if you don't want a certain doctor to see it, they still would have access People could sneak into the hospital office posing as someone else to access medical records if they find out the password which could easily be passed along by another doctor


Voting should be done 100% online for both provincial and federal elections starting in 2017. Arguments For: This way would save people's time and paper would not be wasted People could vote at any time from anywhere, it would be a great convenience
Arguments Against: Not everybody would have the computer system to vote Hackers could change the voting results


Digital textbooks should replace entirely paper textbooks by 2020 in New Brunswick. Arguments For: Paper would no longer be wasted Damaging the textbooks wouldn't happen, save money by not replacing so often
 Arguments Against: Students wouldn't sleep as well, the light/radiation off of the device effects the brain and sleeping is harder to do if using the textbook right before bed Not every student would have the technology to use these textbooks