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Re:Mental Health App Talkspace Raises $50M by maxxxxx on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @09:40PM (#20100818)
Very interesting. I guess it shows you always have to read stuff yourself before believing anything . Does this mean that if you run a site where people enter their health data you are not really bound by HIPPA? Makes me wonder about something like Apple Health? Are they bound by it when they receive data or only when they pass it somewhere else?

Not looking for legal advice. Just curious. In my company our lawyers tell us what to do anyway.

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Re:Mental Health App Talkspace Raises $50M by marcinzm on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @09:03AM (#20103906)
>Are they bound by it when they receive data or only when they pass it somewhere else?

Neither based on my knowledge. They can do whatever they want with the data and give to whomever they want with no restrictions from HIPAA.

edit: Note that their privacy policy may provide protections and the government may get angry with certain sharing but only if it's politically useful (ie: tinder, hiv status and china).

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