Example: Liability

• A first year medical student posts medical advice about an unusual disease to a national mailing list

• A user finds the page using a search engine and takes heed of the advice

• The user is then taken ill.

• Is this a problem? If so, whose:

  • The medical student?
  • The organisation hosting the mailing list?
  • The organisation running the search engine?

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