If opting-out becomes a reality in the healthcare reform bill, it is almost certain to be a political wedge and a litmus test of Conservative Values for Republicans. No GOP incumbent will stave off primary challenges without walking the coals and rejecting ’socialized medicine’.
As a anecdote, consider this Wired magazine article about parents who opt-out of vaccination for their children (via kottke):
There's a lot of hubbub over Rapleaf, a company that datamines email addresses from MySpace, Facebook, and other places. They are "supposed" to be about reputation monitoring (kind of like eBay's seller and buyer reputation) but they are also affiliated with another company, Trustfuse, that sells aggregate data but not emails. You can view a sample of a typical Trustfuse-Rapleaf report here (PDF). After they got spanked by the blogosphere, they altered their privacy policy and softened the language regarding the sale of data, but I suspect at this point the damage is done. They have the following info regarding removing your profile on their privacy page:
