Privacy Advocates Commend Defeat of Rx Data Sharing Bill

Privacy advocates are commending the Assembly Health Committee for defeating a bill (SB 1096) that would have allowed California pharmacies to share patients' drug records with pharmaceutical companies for mass mailing purposes. Supporters of the legislation maintain it was intended to remind patients to take their medications.

• "Assembly Axes Bill Opening Patient Records" (Fernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/19).