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Submitted: January 12, 2011 - 9:09pm
Originally published: January 12, 2011
Last updated: January 12, 2011 - 9:15pm
Originally published: January 12, 2011
Last updated: January 12, 2011 - 9:15pm
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Joe Mullin
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The Supreme Court has announced it will hear Sorrell v. IMS Health, a case relating to the sale of health data. Though not obvious at first glance, it’s a case that’s likely to have some influence on the growing debate over online privacy.
In the case, pharmaceutical and data-mining companies are pushing back against a Vermont regulation that prohibits the selling of certain prescription information. The corporations’ argument in the case -- that buying and selling of consumer data is really a form of commercial “free speech” -- may well mirror the tactic that ad-tech companies could take if they decide to mount a legal challenge to new regulations around online privacy that they see as onerous.
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