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Re:Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warra... by bonestamp2 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:16PM (#38616921)
Wow, that's a gaping privacy loophole.
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Re:Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warra... by dekhn on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:39PM (#38617259)
HIPAA was never a law about privacy of medical data. It's a law that governs the management of medical data, with very limited protections for privacy. I think most people misunderstand that law, its purpose, and its implications.
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Re:Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warra... by ThinkingGuy on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @02:57PM (#38617547)
The P in HIPAA stands for "Portability," not "Privacy."
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Re:Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warra... by u32480932048 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:53PM (#38619912)
HIPPA is the Privacy act ;)
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Re:Pharmacies share medical data with police without a warra... by bonestamp2 on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @12:29PM (#38630780)
Sure, but privacy has been a design consideration of HIPAA since 2003.
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