My colleague Jim Harper over at the Technology Liberation Front discusses the RealAge.com controversy and why the current petition to Oprah is a better way of dealing with the issue than running to the FTC for privacy help. In March, a NYT article exposed how website RealAge.com sells the data it gathers to pharma companies. The petition, created by a group called Patient Privacy Rights, asks Oprah to tell her audience about the privacy issue since her frequent guest Dr. Mehmet Oz was promoting the site on her show.
Oprah gets petition for promoting RealAge.com