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Right, so how do small business reach consumers? Enjoy all the viagra ads!
Small businesses don't win many advertising auctions anyway. Big brands win, or cheap knockoff brands on Amazon, or Amazon itself (not a small business).
Which is why for the ones they do win it is so important for the chance of that user converting to be as high as it can be.
> Pause on the launch of new products, services: The company would be prohibited from releasing new or modified products, services, or features without written confirmation from the assessor that its privacy program is in full compliance with the order’s requirements and presents no material gaps or weaknesses.
Do we really want the government to have to approve every new product a privacy company releases? That seems quite extreme and typically only applies to very specific industries with broad safety concerns (like medical care).
Amazon health just has people agree they can violate hipaa, what's preventing anyone from updating their eula and ignoring this?
I apologize for feeling the need to even ask this, but are you sure you know what HIPAA actually is?
HIPAA prohibits medical providers from disclosing patients' medical records/info to third parties without their consent. Medical providers can still share that data with third parties with patients' consent. And patients are also absolutely free to share their own health data with absolutely anyone, no consent from anyone else is required.
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Right, so how do small business reach consumers? Enjoy all the viagra ads!
I'm not going to see their ad anyway, and if I did and knew it was targeted, I'd be more likely to find somewhere else to shop. What did we have before targeting existed? - I thought unobtrusive keyword-based ads in Google searches were okay, when they didn't fill the results page. - I think context-sensitive ads are fantastic. People reading a boat-building site see ads for boat-building or other related products/se…
Your solution would decimate the millions of small businesses that rely on targeted advertising to get consumers.
Amazon health just has people agree they can violate hipaa, what's preventing anyone from updating their eula and ignoring this?
> Amazon health just has people agree they can violate hipaa I apologize for feeling the need to even ask this, but are you sure you know what HIPAA actually is? HIPAA prohibits medical providers from disclosing patients' medical records/info to third parties without their consent. Medical providers can still share that data with third parties with patients' consent. And patients are also absolutely free to share the…
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> Amazon health just has people agree they can violate hipaa I apologize for feeling the need to even ask this, but are you sure you know what HIPAA actually is? HIPAA prohibits medical providers from disclosing patients' medical records/info to third parties without their consent. Medical providers can still share that data with third parties with patients' consent. And patients are also absolutely free to share the…
it allows them to sell your medical data. I guess once you tell someone about your health data then it's no longer health data protected by hipaa?
It is a bit more complex and involved than this, so a simple answer would be "it depends". However, no matter who it is that is disclosing your health data, they are in the clear to do so as long as you consented to that disclosure and the contract/agreement itself was legally in the clear.
For more caveats/rules around this, I suggest checking the official government page talking about it[0]. I found it to be pretty well-written for a layman person like me to understand.
0. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-individuals/guidance-materials...