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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by dymk on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:46PM (#39085539)
That’s a big hipaa violation.
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by whycome on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:50PM (#39085574)
Not if just looking at correlation.
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by dymk on Sunday January 21, 2024 @10:18PM (#39085782)
Incorrect
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by voisin on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:22PM (#39086157)
You can’t anonymize the data first?
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by dymk on Sunday January 21, 2024 @11:50PM (#39086345)
Nope, it’s not like A/B testing a button color on an ad; it’s medical history
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by NerdiDotOrg on Monday January 22, 2024 @08:20AM (#39089213)
You can anonymize data. If it's not able to identify the real person, it's allowed.
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by dymk on Monday January 22, 2024 @12:42PM (#39092552)
Data which can be tied back to someone's purchase history is by definition not anonymized
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by mc32 on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:49PM (#39085564)
No, but it's probably a HIPAA violation.
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by kevinmchugh on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:55PM (#39085615)
They also probably have a pretty good model of what weight loss looks like absent semaglutide. The semaglutide patients probably have a different set of purchasing behaviors from dieters and LAP band surgery patients.
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Re:Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says by alistairSH on Sunday January 21, 2024 @09:51PM (#39085581)
It’s HIPAA.
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