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So, criticizing that a company collects and indexes sensitive medical data of individuals without insight in what the are producing and selling is "intellectually dishonest" when we single out the fact that they are selling rape victim data collections?

Just explaining how things might have come to be, as you do in this strawman exercise, doesn't make it acceptable, or does it?

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The article attempts to imply that selling a list of "rape sufferers" was deliberate: The company pretended like the list was a huge mistake. A MEDbase rep tried convincing a Wall Street Journal reporter that its rape dossiers were just a “hypothetical list of health conditions/ailments.”

Given the existence of "bioterrorism sufferers" and "polio sufferers" on the list, this explanation seems almost certain to be true. They stuck every medical condition on the list in order to boost their SEO, and they didn't realize that their list of conditions included hot button topics.

If you want to argue that data brokering is unacceptable, do it honestly and without pretending they are selling lists of rape victims and lepers.

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