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I don't think that HIPAA not applying outside of the United States is a loophole. Each country is a different environment, and the laws need to be tailored for

I don't think that HIPAA not applying outside of the United States is a loophole. Each country is a different environment, and the laws need to be tailored for the environment. There seems to be an insatiable need for Americans or Westerners to project their laws/moralities to other countries, and then refuse the accept the reverse, except for certain cultural minorities logical inconsistencies.

toomuchtodo 9y ago
The US extends sex trafficking laws outside the country. Why not other laws?
- jimmywanger 9y ago
  How exactly do they do that? Do they extend the american laws outside our borders and let our police raid international sites without international knowledge/assistance? Mainly because our laws are voted on by our own citizens and because the rest of the world doesn't accept our laws and doesn't have a say in creating them. Your statement seems nonsensical. If there is an action that breaks the law of two countries there can be joint law enforcement activities. The US cannot punish actions that are legal in one country but illegal in the United States by acting in that foreign country.
  - toomuchtodo 9y ago
    If you leave the US and engage in underage sex tourism, you will be prosecuted upon return. https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexual-exploitation-children https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexua... Also, the US government will arrest you on US soil or while transiting an airport in the US for certain crimes that take place outside the US. My post you replied to said "sex trafficking"; I meant sex tourism. Mea culpa.
    - jimmywanger 9y ago
      Sure, and the point is that HIPAA is only applicable to the health organization. If you were to sue somebody under HIPAA, it would be the records organization, for exposing information it shouldn't have, or not logging the access to information properly. However, in this case, HIPAA wouldn't apply to a purely Indian health organization, or the records of a foreign national in a foreign organization. Note that in your situation (sex tourism) all prosecution/wrong doing is based on being a US citizen doing stuff and then returning to US soil. It does not apply to any sort of foreign national - you cannot be prosecuted for sex tourism under the US statute while on US soil if you are not a US national and the crime did not occur on US soil.

toomuchtodo 9y ago

The US extends sex trafficking laws outside the country. Why not other laws?

jimmywanger 9y ago
How exactly do they do that? Do they extend the american laws outside our borders and let our police raid international sites without international knowledge/assistance? Mainly because our laws are voted on by our own citizens and because the rest of the world doesn't accept our laws and doesn't have a say in creating them. Your statement seems nonsensical. If there is an action that breaks the law of two countries there can be joint law enforcement activities. The US cannot punish actions that are legal in one country but illegal in the United States by acting in that foreign country.
- toomuchtodo 9y ago
  If you leave the US and engage in underage sex tourism, you will be prosecuted upon return. https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexual-exploitation-children https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/extraterritorial-sexua... Also, the US government will arrest you on US soil or while transiting an airport in the US for certain crimes that take place outside the US. My post you replied to said "sex trafficking"; I meant sex tourism. Mea culpa.
  - jimmywanger 9y ago
    Sure, and the point is that HIPAA is only applicable to the health organization. If you were to sue somebody under HIPAA, it would be the records organization, for exposing information it shouldn't have, or not logging the access to information properly. However, in this case, HIPAA wouldn't apply to a purely Indian health organization, or the records of a foreign national in a foreign organization. Note that in your situation (sex tourism) all prosecution/wrong doing is based on being a US citizen doing stuff and then returning to US soil. It does not apply to any sort of foreign national - you cannot be prosecuted for sex tourism under the US statute while on US soil if you are not a US national and the crime did not occur on US soil.