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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by colechristensen on Thursday July 29, 2021 @01:23AM (#27993047)
>Citation needed?

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...

There is an example. There has been a proliferation of for-profit companies offering health-related services which aren't counted as healthcare providers which a freely selling and distributing personal data for profit, to law enforcement, and accidentally because they are "not medicine" but in reality they are indeed collecting data about your health and giving you tools, information, and advice as a result of that data.

Companies covered by HIPAA are also sharing your health data extensively either through authorizations which don't very well describe the sharing which is actually happening, or freely without notification or approval as "deidentified" data which has been shown time and again to be rather trivial to unmask deidentified records to figure out the person in question.

Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by nojito on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:15AM (#27995144)
You expressly allow that sharing of information when you use that service.

Also anonymizes healthcare data is neigh impossible to reconstruct so I don’t understand your claim.

Do you have any proof?

Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by dekhn on Thursday July 29, 2021 @09:14AM (#27996119)
it has been repeatedly shown that deanonymized healthcare data is not hard to reconstruct. HIPAA defines a series of identifiers that have to be scrubbed, but it's not enough to prevent reidentification by a motivated adversary.