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Re:Uber executive, who obtained medical records of customer ... by dismantlethesun on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:55PM (#14508458)
> Needless to say they lack the training necessary to decipher a medical record, a rape may or may not have left evidence present in that record

A great many medical reports are written for the eyes of non-practitioners and don't necessarily need a medical professional to decode the information.

Words such as "injuries are consistent with _____" are typically included, because the intended audience is police, judges, lawyers, and other medical laymen who are more interested in the conclusions than the minutiae.

To me, the most important question here is "was this document legally obtained"? If it was, then my follow up questions would involve why, and for what reason the laws allow that legality to occur.

All I can say now is that publicly Uber acted 'okay' after the fact by immediately adding additional safety features, deeper background checks, and never publicly disparaging the victim or her story.

Before the incident, however, they were terrible in the wrong by not following public safety laws regarding background checks, as these laws were created to help prevent the incident that occurred.

As a matter of nuance, Uber rose to prominence by ignoring certain laws and some cherish them for this, but that does not mean that all regulations should simply be ignored.

Re:Uber executive, who obtained medical records of customer ... by kinkrtyavimoodh on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @04:59PM (#14509825)
There is no HIPAA-counterpart in India, so I won't be surprised if the executive got access to the report through something as simple as 'asking for it nicely'.