DEAR DR. GOTT: I was wondering, after years of seeing my general practitioner, why he changed his policy to now demand my driver’s-license number for his files. I feel this is an invasion of my privacy.
With that last bit of information, I am now not in charge of the protection of my privacy. He is subject to office break-ins, unhappy employees, theft, loss of disks or whatever forms the information is stored on to hackers. Why do they need anything more than an address and Social Security number?
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