Privacy Patrol

Thank god the Army is all about stopping terr’ists. Even if that means “invading people’s privacy”:http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,60540,00.html. Or paying a contractor, to pay another contractor to pour through private data without the knowledge of the customers.

I work in a research hospital, patients may get their blood drawn for normal tests that they are charged for. If we want to do non-billed research on their samples, in the efforts of curing cancer we would have to get clearance from the patient to do so; even then no medical data would be revealed to a third party!

Something seems wrong about this. Privacy is privacy, it should be protected.