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> How fast would you be arrested and sued if you left those companies with a spreadsheet of customer data on a personal device? Plenty of companies, and especi
by shakna 6y ago
> How fast would you be arrested and sued if you left those companies with a spreadsheet of customer data on a personal device?
Plenty of companies, and especially government bodies, fail to clean devices correctly when employees leave.
This could be nothing more than an undeleted email that was part of her work. Or something mistakingly sent to the wrong employee that she failed to delete.
- ABeeSea 6y agoIf it contained phone numbers and Covid status, that’s a HIPAA concern no matter the intent or source of data.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> If it contained phone numbers and Covid status, that’s a HIPAA concern no matter the intent or source of data. IIRC, it technically would not, as the public health authorities to which HIPAA allows disclosure for public health purposes are not themselves HIPAA covered entities, so any improper disclosures of data they hold are not HIPAA concerns (for state public health authorities, they would generally be covered by state privacy laws, though.)