Re:Telehealth startup Cerebral shared millions of patients’ ...
by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:12PM
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That's actually a common misconception, that HIPAA infringements mean people are going to jail for a long time or something.
While infringements are taken seriously, and intentional infringement (e.g. looking up the records of a famous celebrity being treated in your hospital without reason to) results in hefty penalities, 99% sure this was a case of them using Google Analytics/Tag Manager and accidentally tagging stuff with protected PII fields. Yes, definitely a serious issue, but on my scale of "breaches I would be concerned about", this one would actually be relatively low.
While infringements are taken seriously, and intentional infringement (e.g. looking up the records of a famous celebrity being treated in your hospital without reason to) results in hefty penalities, 99% sure this was a case of them using Google Analytics/Tag Manager and accidentally tagging stuff with protected PII fields. Yes, definitely a serious issue, but on my scale of "breaches I would be concerned about", this one would actually be relatively low.