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You have this completely backwards. The victims here are the patients whose information was leaked. The care provider failed in their duty to prevent the leak.
by colonwqbang 6y ago
You have this completely backwards. The victims here are the patients whose information was leaked. The care provider failed in their duty to prevent the leak.
If you want a rape analogy, it's like blaming a police officer for failing to prevent a rape due to the police officer being drunk.
- fogihujy 6y agoFair enough. The police officer would still not be guilty of the rape.
- lucb1e 6y agoGiven that the care provider is the owner of this data, not the users themselves, I think they are also a victim. If we want to continue this analogy it might be a victim that walked uninvited into a house with a big sign "you will be raped if you walk into my house", but is still a victim nevertheless. I do think that solely blaming the care provider for their failure to protect is incorrect because a non-victim can hardly file charges against the perpetrator. Of course, I agree that the care provider also did something wrong (as well as the hacker(s)) and that the people are also victims, but "the people vs. the care provider" is a separate matter from "the care provider vs. the criminal".