Junk phone calls, sites that snoop on your Web surfing, medical Peeping Toms-your privacy is under constant attack. There ought to be a law!rnNo, on second thought, there ought to be a product. When commerce and legislation compete to solve a problem, commerce usually does a better job.rnLawmakers have filled statute books with rules to protect personal privacy. The laws do some good and a lot of bad. The one that goes by the name Hipaa seems to be a lot more effective in burying patients in paperwork than in protecting them. It also has the side effect of preventing vital medical research, as Lee Gomes reports on page 34.
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