Like emails and documents stored in the cloud, your prescription medical records may have a tenuous right to privacy. In response to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over the privacy of certain medical records, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is arguing that citizens whose medical records are handed over to a pharmacy — or any other third-party — have "no expectation of privacy" for that information.
The administration's argument plays off of the "third-party doctrine," which says that handing over a document to another party — even if that just means sending an email through someone else's server — revokes any fourth amendment right to its privacy. The DEA also argues that a 1977 Supreme...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4766506/dea-argues-against-constitutional-protection-medical-records
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