This story provides multiple examples to make its point and doesn't just give one side of the story. The examples successfully illustrate the points the story is making and are relevant to the audience.

Informative report about a little-known loophole in U.S. privacy laws, which up to last February allowed the sale of personal health information. Well-sourced, with good context on the data mining industry, and clear examples of these issues affect us directly.

The lede of this mostly good story about patient confidentiality is missing a key point: the effective date of the privacy part of the Health Insurance Privacy and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) didn't go into effect until 2003, well after the privacy breach the article describes.

I liked how this story took the issue of companies sharing personal prescription information, and used it to expound of the broader issues surrounding health care privacy.