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...police. While the evidence is not admissible in court, knowing whom a suspect is talking to can prove useful in solving crimes and inducing confessions. "Just because evidence is not used at trial doesn?t mean it has no effect on the case or that there?s no harm," says Sherwin Siy, staff counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Texas-based PDJ Investigations, which runs several online information-gathering sites, along with another data broker who wished to remain anonymous, told TIME that they willingly give information to the police, often for free, if it is requested. Many websites...
...accident that a punk-rock band from Salt Lake City, Utah, called itself Hospital Food. The typical fare at medical centers is ba-a-a-ad. "When you say 'hospital food,' people laugh because it's so lousy," says Jamie Harvie of Health Care Without Harm, a Minnesota-based nonprofit...
...change, spurred in part by hospitals' trying to attract well-heeled customers with generous health insurance. Last month MedAssets, a group purchaser for 2,400 hospitals, signed a contract with United Natural Foods, the nation's largest purveyor of organic products. And two months ago, Health Care Without Harm noharm.org launched a Healthy Food in Health Care pledge campaign for consumers to enlist their hospitals. So far, 47 medical centers have signed on to push for chemical-free food. Says Marie Kulick of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, author of a study on hospital fare: "The more patients...
...Washington have made investors skittish about corporations becoming tainted by their donations. "It's easy for politicians and companies to get a little bit out of control," says Andrew Shalit, director of shareholder advocacy at Green Century, a mutual-fund manager that has proposed disclosure resolutions. "A lot of harm can come from that." One thing's for sure. When the harm hits headlines--and bottom lines--attention will be paid...
...civil libertarians do. Or maybe Americans figure that if Verizon and Ma Bell can keep track of whom they call--and that, in exchange for a discount card, Safeway gets to compile a database of what they eat and Barnes & Noble of what they read--there's not much harm if the government knows as well...