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I assume they don’t mean that they are baffled by human nature. The thing that’s sort of unexpected is that, knowing human nature, companies don’t build in safe
by smodo 4y ago
I assume they don’t mean that they are baffled by human nature. The thing that’s sort of unexpected is that, knowing human nature, companies don’t build in safeguards for this kind of sh.
- plagiarist 4y agoExactly so. It is repugnant that level of access was even available to a employee based on nothing but curiosity. Unfortunately another part of human nature is that most people profiting off you don't give a shit about your privacy. This is why legislation such as HIPAA has to exist.
- WalterBright 4y agoDo you really thing the people in government care about your privacy? Let's be real. Nobody cares about your (or my) privacy.
- plagiarist 4y agoIf the government gave a shit about privacy in general, Equifax would have been fined into oblivion and its owners jailed for a bit. The example is not evidence that they give a shit, it is presented as something without which our healthcare data would be traded as another commodity.
- freedomben 4y ago> Do you really thing the people in government care about your privacy? They definitely don't, but at least there is electoral pressure applied to them from constituents who they represent. In the case of private orgs it is gobble up anything you can and there's no way for regular users to hold them accountable.