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> HIPPA is absolutely not too strict, it has many fundamental holes which need to be plugged. Citation needed? It’s HIPAA, by the way; one P and two As. > The

by bdhess 5y ago

> HIPPA is absolutely not too strict, it has many fundamental holes which need to be plugged. Citation needed? It’s HIPAA, by the way; one P and two As. > There is a developing liberty/security divide which is going very much in the direction of far too far. Total drivel. I’m sick of lockdowns and mask mandates. If you’re legally and medically eligible for a vaccine and you haven’t gotten one, I’m happy for private businesses to refuse you service.

colechristensen 5y ago
>Citation needed? https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/02/20/dna-databases-are-boon-to-police-but-menace-to-privacy-critics-say https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta... There is an example. There has been a proliferation of for-profit companies offering health-related services which aren't counted as healthcare providers which a freely selling and distributing personal data for profit, to law enforcement, and accidentally because they are "not medicine" but in reality they are indeed collecting data about your health and giving you tools, information, and advice as a result of that data. Companies covered by HIPAA are also sharing your health data extensively either through authorizations which don't very well describe the sharing which is actually happening, or freely without notification or approval as "deidentified" data which has been shown time and again to be rather trivial to unmask deidentified records to figure out the person in question.
- nojito 5y ago
  You expressly allow that sharing of information when you use that service. Also anonymizes healthcare data is neigh impossible to reconstruct so I don’t understand your claim. Do you have any proof?
  - dekhn 5y ago
    it has been repeatedly shown that deanonymized healthcare data is not hard to reconstruct. HIPAA defines a series of identifiers that have to be scrubbed, but it's not enough to prevent reidentification by a motivated adversary.

by bdhess 5y ago

colechristensen 5y ago

>Citation needed? https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/02/20/dna-databases-are-boon-to-police-but-menace-to-privacy-critics-say https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta... There is an example. There has been a proliferation of for-profit companies offering health-related services which aren't counted as healthcare providers which a freely selling and distributing personal data for profit, to law enforcement, and accidentally because they are "not medicine" but in reality they are indeed collecting data about your health and giving you tools, information, and advice as a result of that data. Companies covered by HIPAA are also sharing your health data extensively either through authorizations which don't very well describe the sharing which is actually happening, or freely without notification or approval as "deidentified" data which has been shown time and again to be rather trivial to unmask deidentified records to figure out the person in question.

nojito 5y ago
You expressly allow that sharing of information when you use that service. Also anonymizes healthcare data is neigh impossible to reconstruct so I don’t understand your claim. Do you have any proof?
- dekhn 5y ago
  it has been repeatedly shown that deanonymized healthcare data is not hard to reconstruct. HIPAA defines a series of identifiers that have to be scrubbed, but it's not enough to prevent reidentification by a motivated adversary.