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Facebook allows you to specify whether the account owner agrees to donate internal organs



The boundary between private and public information of a person in the digital age is gradually obliterated, and the intervention of social networks in everyday life is becoming more and more active.

Facebook's largest social network in the world will now allow its users to indicate in the personal data of their profile consent to the donation of internal organs in the event that the circumstances are such that no one else can make such a decision. The head of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, personally made a statement about this, explaining this in several circumstances.
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First, the mission of saving human lives is noble, and often in extreme cases, various legal incidents interfere, when the intentions of a potential donor regarding the fate of their internal organs after death are at least unclear and this makes it difficult to save those lives that still can it would save. And in America alone there are 114,000 people waiting for organs to be transplanted.

Secondly, his girlfriend, a student at a medical college, had a significant influence on Zuckerberg in this sense.

And thirdly, an important argument in favor of introducing a new function was the story of Zuckerberg’s friend Steve Jobs, who had a liver transplant from a donor.

Currently, the donation indication function is currently available only in the UK and the USA — at this point, Facebook’s legal service assesses the potential benefits and harms of introducing it in countries where donation is officially allowed or prohibited.

It can be assumed that for some time hacking an account in a social network will be equivalent for an ordinary person to any serious incident in real life, because the aggregation of such private information about a person in one place only increases and, apparently, this process will only continue.

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143122/


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