"The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has outlawed the practice of pricing insurance premiums based on gender. The ruling, which will be formally handed down later today, means that premium pricing based upon other areas of discrimination, such as age or disability, is also incompatible with European law." - Simon

What do folks think about this ban? What if it insurance pricing used race or ethnicity for adjusting premiums? "Oh, you're Jewish. Ok, we'll raise/lower your premiums by $X". - Simon

Can we just generalize this to a ban on any use of personal data? Or perhaps a more general ban on any company in any industry setting prices based on expected cost of service? I think if you're going to prohibit these sorts of things, you might as well just nationalize the industry and provide the service to everyone, paid for with taxes that are not based on your expected health care costs. - Seth