Websites such as www.cancerpage.com offer cancer patients sophisticated medical data and advice in exchange for personal information that is then sold to advertisers and business partners and used by the websites to create products to sell back to patients. Some argue that cancer patients visiting these sites are willingly exchanging their personal information for the sites' medical information. Others contend that this kind of exchange is unethical. Please respond to the following:
• Explain the ethical aspects of selling personal information to third parties for purposes of creating products to sell back to the patients.