6.23.2011

If you want you some free speech get yourself a great big pile of money and donate it to some politician's election campaign

That's free speech. This, not so much...

Supreme Court strikes down state drug data mining law - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court struck down on Thursday a state law that prohibits the use of prescription drug records for marketing, in a case pitting free-speech rights against medical privacy concerns.

The high court handed a victory to data mining companies IMS Health, Verispan and Source Healthcare Analytics, a unit of Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer, that collect and sell such information and that challenged the law.

 

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