This article from the Independant made me aware of an interesting problem at the intersection of police work and private health. Apparently, teenage gangs who prey sexually on young women may send the women to get screened for STDs to make certain that they're "clean." (I hate the notion that having an STD makes you dirty, but it's probably an accurate portrayal of the gang members' perception.) Because of this, there is a possibility that areas with that sort of gang activity will have an uptick in STD screenings for very young women, and the police want to be able to use clinic medical records to find and stop such sexual grooming activities as quickly as possible.
The notion makes me slightly uncomfortable, but that's probably mostly because I'm basing my judgement on how STD clinics work in the U.S. In the U.K., all testing is reported to the central National Health Service (NHS) database, and so it's easier to abstract useful, anonymized data. In point of fact, the British Medical Association supports the plan, at least in theory, and I think it will be interesting to see how things turn out. I'm particularly curious about whether gangs are actually testing their victims for STDs. Whatever the answer is, it's going to say something very interesting about sexual health and violence in modern society. I just don't know what.
Source: http://std.about.com/b/2012/06/08/privacy-and-police-work.htm
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