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What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?
Only when Congress might be embarrassed. The VPPA exists so we can't find out what videos they watch in their spare time between orgies.
It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.
At least make it an explicitly protected right to lie about your race in any context. It's a lot easier to ruin a dataset than it is to hide from it.
If someone targets black people, you're on that list; if someone targets white people, you're also on that list!
I’m more annoyed that these government healthcare marketplaces are asking people their race in the first place. Really don’t think anything should be, including job applications.
The richest tech companies and richest men in the world got rich by invading people's privacy and selling invasive ads.
They got rich because people were stupid enough to think free services come without a cost.
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At least make it an explicitly protected right to lie about your race in any context. It's a lot easier to ruin a dataset than it is to hide from it.
Yes, but does anyone treat it as ruined, or do you get targeted for both/all races? If someone targets black people, you're on that list; if someone targets white people, you're also on that list!
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I wouldn't be surprised if both are illegal. But these days, the correlation between "X is illegal" and "larger org's do not do X" just ain't what it yousta be.
My understanding is that it's legal with opt-in, but the opt-in is allowed to be confusing, opaque, and sticky, so most people "consent" without informed consideration. We really need to revisit contract law in a modern context. Call me crazy but I don't think it's reasonable that our society operates in such a way that easily 90+% of people are subject to contract terms they signed but don't know or understand.
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HIPAA applies to healthcare professionals and providers, not ad tech companies. And race and citizenship are not personal health-related data.
That's not actually true. It applies to health care data. If you're a software engineer making a system that includes HIPAA-protected data, you can face individual criminal liabilities for mishandling the data.
Also, I believe (but am not certain) that if there was any criminal case, it would be leadership (C*O) not individual software engineers who would be charged. This is speculation on my part, if anybody has clear facts I'm happy to hear them.