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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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Post by dexterdog »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #27
Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would politicians ever pass such a law? Who do you think they work for? update: Yeah, my bad. The point of this comment was to express my increasing cynicism at how we just keep seeing this kind of corporate behavior over and over again and how even when a tiny win is achieved on things like data collection, right to repair, ease for cancelling subscriptions, privacy, and so on and so on, they are so quickly over…

They work for the people. In some countries, people actually vote for politicians that benefit the population. In other countries, people repeatedly vote for politicians despite knowing that those politicians are only interested in enriching themselves, with a track record going back decades of doing nothing but that. The problem, then, is the voters in certain countries, not the politicians.

And in some countries people are only given a choice of two, neither of which benefit the population.

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

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Post by dekhn »

ButlerianJihad wrote: post #39
dekhn wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The second “P” in HIPAA stands for “Privacy”

I wonder if that's why so many people write it as HIPPA.

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

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Post by arikrahman »

wilg wrote: post #25
post-it wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?

The point of the comment is to spread toxic and deadly cynicism.

And also to karma farm. Thankfully the comment is greyed out for what it is.

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

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

wilg wrote: post #25
post-it wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the point of this kind of comment? Have pro-citizen anti-corporate laws never been passed in the past?

The point of the comment is to spread toxic and deadly cynicism.

You never see corporate media doing anything like that.

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

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Post by roughly »

dexterdog wrote: post #41
applfanboysbgon wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They work for the people. In some countries, people actually vote for politicians that benefit the population. In other countries, people repeatedly vote for politicians despite knowing that those politicians are only interested in enriching themselves, with a track record going back decades of doing nothing but that. The problem, then, is the voters in certain countries, not the politicians.

And in some countries people are only given a choice of two, neither of which benefit the population.

Many of those countries have mechanisms by which one can express their preferences earlier in the process, ones which have been successfully used to pivot major political parties in new and unexpected directions, although those mechanisms are more complicated than just showing up at the end and whining about the results, so usually it's only motivated individuals and entities which leverage them.

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

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Post by arikrahman »

dekhn wrote: post #13
ux266478 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 d…

You're referring to the privacy rule, which is only part of the law (and not its primary prupose). The original intent of the law was to ensure easy transfer of information to keep health coverage when changing jobs. The privacy rule was not even part of the original law, it was added by HHS 3 years later. See more details here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9576/

The article you cited states congress was aware of privacy concerns at the time and covered them as part of the third stated provision.

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

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Post by malcolmgreaves »

SoftTalker wrote: post #16
josefritzishere wrote: post #4

How is this not a HIPAA violation?

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.

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

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Post by 2ndorderthought »

wewtyflakes wrote: post #5

It should be illegal to send the data, and illegal to accept it; burn both sides of that bridge.

Well the tech companies/offense contractors are probably using it to enrich the department of wars efforts. Hmm I wonder what they want race and citizenship data for? Ohhh... Oh...
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