FC: Your medical privacy is worth $266.67

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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"Free Prozac in the mail draws a lawsuit, from NYT"
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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:56:30 -0400
Subject: Your privacy is worth $266.67
From: Space Rogue <spacerog () speakeasy net>
To: <declan () well com>


600 people, $160K means your privacy is worth $266.67

-SR

http://www.theday.com/news/ts-re.asp?NewsUID=450B2B3D-7750-4370-9111-E3D37168101D

Boston ‹ Eight states including Connecticut will divide $160,000 in a
settlement with Eli Lilly and Co. over allegations the drug maker
unintentionally released the e-mail addresses of more than 600 people taking
Prozac.

Indianapolis-based Lilly settled a suit over the matter with the Federal
Trade Commission in January, promising better safeguards. It was the first
time the FTC had prosecuted an unintentional violation of a Web site's
privacy policies.

On Thursday, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly said the company
would pay $160,000 to Massachusetts and seven other states: California,
Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, New York, New Jersey and Vermont.

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