>Europe that keeps them from being a hotbed of technological innovation [...] across a wide swath of sectors including healthcare and tech. In some cases it's

>Europe that keeps them from being a hotbed of technological innovation [...] across a wide swath of sectors including healthcare and tech. In some cases it's OK and frankly preferable to prevent "technological innovation" that comes from the US. I recently signed up with a new healthcare provider that wanted me to use their portal, but buried in the signup agreement was text that said you agree that if your data is shared with a third party from this portal it no longer enjoys HIPAA protection and may be used for any purpose. Yeah, fuck that. I consider healthcare information highly sensitive and see zero upside to handing off any hope of privacy so some middleman can make a couple of bucks reselling my data. That specific kind of "technological innovation" needs to be legislated away - if my data enjoys HIPAA protection it needs to be tainted such that it may never leave the HIPAA ecosystem, and no one should be able to gatekeep my access to healthcare by insisting I give up my right to privacy.