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>until I was in the hospital last year So much for HIPAA huh?
by panny 5mo ago
>until I was in the hospital last year
So much for HIPAA huh?
- balamatom 5mo agoScience opportunity! >:] Get yourself locked up in the slammer for a night while carrying a fresh burner; observe them writing down your IMEI and IMSI; see if that makes you start getting robocalls.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoPhone numbers aren't protected health information.
- AnimalMuppet 5mo agoIs the fact that I was in the hospital protected health information? If not, why not?
- reaperducer 5mo agoI wouldn't blame the hospital. It was documented years ago that lawyers were buying cell phone location data from the carriers in order to drum up potential clients in hospitals. Blame the data industry and big tech.
- AnimalMuppet 5mo agoAnd lawyers.
- SoftTalker 5mo agoIt probably is today. There was a time when hospital admissions/discharges were published in the local paper. As a population we used to be a lot less concerned with privacy. It was nicer in a way. It was a time when you didn't really worry about your identity getting leaked or stolen. If someone knew you were in the hospital, they might send you flowers or a card.
- ranger_danger 5mo ago> Phone numbers aren't protected health information. Yes they are: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/part-164/section-164.514#p-164.514(b)(2)(i)(D) https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/part-164/section-164.5...
- Cider9986 5mo agoHIPPA doesn't do anything to protect your medical privacy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfIBRTcRpU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sfIBRTcRpU).