Privacy, like other things in this world, can be taken to excess.
We’ve made no secret over the years of our dislike for the bane of every journalist, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, better known as HIPAA.
When I first became a journalist, it was standard practice to report accident victims’ conditions in the newspaper. Those were also the days in which you didn’t have to stand behind a line, umpteen…