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What happens when small-firm doctors, therapists, dentists, etc. are suddenly having your (their patients') medical information backed-up to OneDrive? Microsoft
by tsuru 2y ago
What happens when small-firm doctors, therapists, dentists, etc. are suddenly having your (their patients') medical information backed-up to OneDrive? Microsoft only provide HIPAA compliance if a certain paid tier is purchased. If they automatically turn OneDrive on how will this not be a privacy nightmare?
- petee 2y agoFrom what I've gleaned from my social worker/therapist house mate is that you're not supposed to be storing any of that data on a non-compliant device to begin with. They can't keep anything local, and use some portal to a company that specializes in HIPAA storage. I agree in general though, there are plenty of documents that really shouldn't be suddenly dumped to the cloud
- orev 2y agoThe point here is that you might have a system that is compliant, but then MS pushes this and suddenly it’s uploading data that you thought was safe.
- ImaCake 2y agoSurely this has happened with this latest change? It got turned on for my work machine a few months ago and tried to upload some very large modelling files to the cloud. I have to keep that stuff in the root dir now, but most PC users don't even know what the root dir is.
- amanzi 2y agoThis is light on details, but according to the article, this only happens during the initial Windows 11 set-up, and not for existing users: "Quietly and without any announcement, the company changed Windows 11's initial setup so that it could turn on the automatic folder backup without asking for it."