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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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The US citizens will have to fight down those corporate overlords. It is now really just shameful how they leech off of the common man (and common woman). People in democracies outside of the USA shake their head in sadness now. Even Canada is doing better here - don't tell anyone the crazy orange king, for he may begin to potty-mouth and threaten them with invasion again.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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post #7

How is this not a HIPAA violation?

HIPAA as a law is intended to ease transfer of medical information, not restrict it.

That's not true. It's intended to define a regulated and standard means of transferring medical information while ensuring confidentiality and patient privacy.

https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg...

You have to explicitly grant permission for your data to be sold. What's very likely is that either the healthcare provider or insurance company included a request for authorization to sell that data, and the authorization was signed without paying much attention to it.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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anecdata - in Berkeley CA, in the late 2010s, two individuals showed up to be in the fast-paced AD scene. One was from a former Soviet Union country, who spoke English pretty well .. and the other a woman from Columbia .. to say that both of these two were "aggressive" is an understatement. He spoke English, she was in charge of "security" .. after a very few meetups, they both formed a company for "Ad tech for Hospitals" .. it was "heavy security" they said, and therefore did not discuss any details in public. They very obviously would do "aggressive" actions to get into the business, defeat competitors, and satisfy ..clients? Who were they satisfying with the cultural norms, constantly aggressive stance, move fast and break things approach? Every single person involved had the motivation of Big Money, Now.

Re: US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

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post #7

How is this not a HIPAA violation?

HIPAA as a law is intended to ease transfer of medical information, not restrict it.

"The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 is a US federal law designed to protect sensitive patient health information from disclosure without consent."
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