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You really can't do that legally, at least not in the US. HIPPA prevents you from sharing other people's health info, which disability is. That includes sharing
by tharne 3y ago
You really can't do that legally, at least not in the US. HIPPA prevents you from sharing other people's health info, which disability is. That includes sharing it in the aggregate when it would be easy enough to de-anonymize the data due to small or small-sh sample sizes.
If anything, we should be doing less of this information gathering not more. It's very creepy, for example, that corporations have made it normal for employers to ask their employees questions about their sexual preferences and store that information in databases.
There's also a safety issue at play. If you're part of an historically mistreated group, do you really want your employer cataloging that? What happens when the zeitgest changes and things get bad for that group again? There are plenty of Jewish people in America who are shocked at the amount of AntiSemitism being thrown their way - A lot of folks thought that was behind us. Likewise, Iran was a fairly liberal country back in the 70's and the tide turned very quickly the other way. And of course there's the issue of women's rights in the post Roe era.
- unsupp0rted 3y ago[flagged]
- runjake 3y ago- It's HIPAA, not HIPPA. - HIPAA only applies[1] to "covered entities" as defined by HIPAA, under Title II and HHS[2]. That said, a lot of non-covered entities try to conform to HIPAA voluntarily. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act#Title_II:_Preventing_Health_Care_Fraud_and_Abuse;_Administrative_Simplification;_Medical_Liability_Reform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_a... 2. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-C/part-160/subpart-A/section-160.103 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-...