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30% of Americans have faced health data breaches this year
- CraigRo 3y agoHIPAA creates huge amounts of friction in delivering medical services without actually improving security much
- SoftTalker 3y agoYeah I'm pretty unsold on any benefits. Who cares if anyone knows my health information. There was a time before HIPAA and I don't recall a lot of issues. I guess I should read up on the history that motivated it.
- dymk 3y agoA lot of people care that their health information is private.
- Apocryphon 3y agoIf that’s true then willingly open source it. Within a short time you’ll either be blackmailed, your identity stolen, or have your insurance premiums go up.
- SoftTalker 3y agoMy insurance company already knows everything there is to know about my health history. The other stuff, yeah I guess that could hypothetically happen, but how much of a problem was it really and is the cost of HIPAA worth it? HIPAA, as I have read, was mostly about health insurance portabilty and eliminating things like losing coverage for pre-existing conditions when you changed jobs and insurance. All the privacy regulations were added by the Department of Health and Human Services after the law was passed.
- dymk 3y agoHow do you know that? Maybe things would be much worse without HIPPA.
- bluish29 3y agoWhy would any institution take security of the people data seriously if it take a lot of resources if all they had to suffer is to offer 12 months of free credit monitoring? And they even have the audacity to call that Industry standard.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Why would any institution take security of the people data seriously if it take a lot of resources if all they had to suffer is to offer 12 months of free credit monitoring? Serious question from someone who takes their privacy seriously. What actual harms have we documented from these breaches?
- anm89 3y agoSerious fucking idiocy
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Serious fucking idiocy Mature response. Now actually think about it. If you solve this, you've solved the key barrier to incentivizing change. If you can't answer it, then security seems more like an aesthetic preference than a social problem.
- j-bos 3y agoI'm not a statistician, but I like barinstorming: - Spearphishing and the consequences of such - Persistent robocalls - Wide net identity theft - Targeted scam calls to family members
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> I like barinstorming: - Spearphishing and the consequences of such - Persistent robocalls - Wide net identity theft - Targeted scam calls to family members Actual, not hypothetical. Again, I believe this happens. But why is it so difficult to document?
- marricks 3y agoPeople knock it, but it's the best system in the world. Costs more per capita than anywhere else, long waits for specialists, doctors and nurses are overworked, and many have to fight insurance to get even basics needs covered. None better though* * if you make over 500k a year
- gustavus 3y agoI work in info sec. The emphasis is never on securing things but rather on "risk management" the entire field of information security from a business perspective is the quote from fight club "A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one." That is literally what the entire field exists for. Here's the kicker the cost of X is so monumentally low right now because there are no consequences for it other than firing your CSO (Chief Sacrificial Officer) that there is almost never a reason to issue the recall.