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As a non-American I am always fascinated by the hacks and kludges that people propose to mitigate the inherent dysfunction that is the US medical system. I con
by Teever 5y ago
As a non-American I am always fascinated by the hacks and kludges that people propose to mitigate the inherent dysfunction that is the US medical system.
I consider intentional breaches of medical privacy to be in the same league as physical assault and as such would expect a society to respond to these kinds of crimes with swift and severe punishments including jail time and fines.
Why not just arrest these people and take the profits from their crime instead of adding civil lawyers and bureaucracy to the mix?
- ska 5y ago>and as such would expect a society to respond to these kinds of crimes with swift and severe punishments including jail time and fines. Can you point to any country with a law on the books like this?
- dreamcompiler 5y agoThe USA. HIPAA states that willful or malicious disclosures of identifiable health information with intent to sell for personal gain have penalties of up to 10 years in prison [0]. But of course that's not what TFA was about. [0] https://inspiredelearning.com/blog/hipaa-101-guide-violations-penalties/ https://inspiredelearning.com/blog/hipaa-101-guide-violation...
- ska 5y ago> But of course that's not what TFA was about. Right, there are criminal penalties possible under HIPAA (I don't know if anyone has actually gone to jail under them) but they explicitly don't apply to the situation I was replying to (or I misunderstood it).