That should be a criminal case of unauthorized access, before you even get to the hipaa violation
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The indictment alleged that Haim asked to reactivate his login there and in 2023 began accessing information on pediatric patients not under his care and then turned it over to a media contact.
And here’s a reminder that HIPAA exists in large part due to doctors/nurses basically blackmailing politicians and celebrities. If a senator showed up in a doctor’s office with the clap, medical staff would threaten to sell that info (basically saying they were having an affair or got cheated on) to the tabloids unless the politician paid up. Or even worse, if they were diagnosed with HIV, the medical staff would out them as gay.
If the patients hadn't been transgender, this would not have been dropped. It is illegal to share that data no matter what...
Oh you missed the news about congress wanting to insert AI into the medical system, including diagnosis and dispensing medicine.
An AI does not have any sort of doctor-patient confidentiality.
So it won't just be trans people, it will be anyone who's health issues make them undesirable in the eyes of the government. For example, people who turn out to be part of a group genetically even if they don't look like it.
Ah yes... copying United Healthcare is exactly what the official government position should be. It's not like that has resulted in ANYTHING happening to the guy in charge.
The UHC CEO didn't have trained government forces to protect him. Trump already has Secret Service protection and you can bet your ass that the first time anyone tries something like Luigi Mangione did, that protection will get far broader (to all of his administration if possible) and far stronger.
Because corporations are super powerful, but they don't have their own giant military and security forces like the U.S. government does.
I never mentioned Trump. There are plenty of other department heads and managers that will implement these things, they're just as culpable all the way down the line.
Besides, Trump's already had 1.5 attempts, and those show the Secret Service were/are utterly incompetent at active protection now. We saw what they could do, not prevent a sniper from taking multiple shots from a clear rooftop. And letting a guy sit in a bush at the edge of Mar-A-Lago for nearly 12 hours. Not exactly the best protection there, and that's what you get when the primary requirement is loyalty over anything else, the real professionals don't stick around.
Because corporations are super powerful, but they don't have their own giant military and security forces like the U.S. government does.
There are plenty of heavily armed private security/private military contractors for hire. Fuck, Boeing clearly has at least one hitman on retainer given their recent whistleblowers. You honestly think billionaires of all people would have any problem hiring whoever they wanted to? Hell, most of those companies hire directly from the military anyway, so they have the exact same training, but get paid way better in the private sector to give some fucks.
The people all the way down the line will have full military protection given to them with instructions to shoot anyone who looks at them funny. You have way too much faith in the system. These people do not care about the law. They are the law. America is now a fascist dictatorship.
And billionaires don't have one of the world's largest and most powerful military forces at their disposal, forces that Trump has already announced his intentions to use domestically.
People really need to stop thinking that things are not all that different from before.
They are pulling protection details from people like Fauci, career non-partisan government officials who’ve been branded enemies of the right. Besides the obvious, I’m sure part of the reason was to re-allocate those resources elsewhere.
There’s no way they would allow this kind of discrimination in AI it’s not like AI has been proven to be racist? Right?
Legit tho, has AI ever not been used to discriminate in situations like this?
False... Any system that access medical data needs to follow the same HIPAA laws regarding information access. Putting that info into a database doesn't absorb you of the responsibility of protecting that data, neither would giving access to that database to an AI
An AI can be hacked. An IT person working for the AI company doesn't even need to hack it.
Doctors can keep secrets.
And you and others still haven't accepted that they do not care about the law. I mean this story alone should prove that to you.
See...if " the AI company" has access to the data, instead of the hospital using a local implementation of said AI, they've already failed according to Hipaa
Once again- they do not care about the law.
Why is that not obvious to you yet?
And you already acting like they can ignore it without a care IS WHAT ALLOWS THEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT.
Stop enabling fascists, please.
What are you even talking about? Who do you think I am? What power do you think I have?
I think you're a member of the public. And when the public cedes power to despots, they take it willingly.
What exactly do you expect me to do about all of the laws Trump has already violated in the past week? Tell me in specific what I am supposed to do about it.
Your can stop acting like it's all a forgive conclusion for starters. You're literally assisting with the normalization. Fucking stop it
You think if I personally stop talking about him breaking the law, he'll stop breaking the law? Really? You really think that?
You've missed my entire point. I'm not going to request myself again.
You still haven't told me what you expect me to do to stop Trump from breaking the law even though I've already asked you once.
All you've said is stop talking about him breaking the law.
By the way, I'm not even in the U.S. anymore. My lesbian daughter and I fled to the UK on Monday because her life is at risk. Why is her life at risk? Because Trump doesn't care about the law. But do feel free to tell me what I can do across the ocean other than not talk about all the bad shit he's doing.
I suppose you'd rather me keep her in the U.S. and keep my mouth shut until they take her off to a conversion therapy concentration camp because otherwise I'm enabling them somehow.
HIPAA will still and should get him terminated. It was not an accidental HIPAA violation for sure and HIPAA is one of strongest privacy laws. Healthcare gets slapped with fines all the time. They do not get ignored and most healthcare agencies have harsh policies around it. Ive known some incidents of fines, corrective actions, and terminations
The word you are looking for is absolve, not absorb.
That's what I typed, my phone had other ideas.
Not just that, if you did something illegal at time X, it doesn't matter if it's made legal later on, at the time what you did was a crime.
When charges are dropped like this, can someone else take them up and attempt to prosecute him? Sharing information like this is clearly illegal.
Brownshirts in every facet of life. Fucking fascists.
Hopefully the patients can at least sue the guy.
This is fucked up on so many levels.. where to begin.. More now than ever, privacy is a human right
Sure would be a shame if someone leaked his info.
Very unfortunate if Luigi got a hold of it.
Which means that this is the new norm.
Only gonna get worse
I somehow didn't really notice before, so many people were holding back their deep hatred for anything diverging from the "norm".
They all dropped their masks, even before Trump took over.
My daughter and I are now in the UK with the intent to stay, and in just the few days I've been here it's amazing to see how little people give a shit about conforming to any one look like Americans are. The diversity here of just the types of clothing people wear alone is so refreshing to see. Sure, there are stuffy upper-class people wearing suits all day, but there are also guys in African Dashikis and women who would not look out of place in any Middle Eastern country (I'm not a fan of the whole veil thing, but it's still different). You don't see this stuff in the U.S. outside of major cities, and not even close to as much there, and the city I am in right now is far from a major one. It's a little hard to explain unless you see it yourself, but just walking a couple of blocks to the local mall and it looks and sounds like you're in an international airport in terms of the people around you.
People think the U.S. has diversity, but just being here a week shows me the difference in terms of what we think of as diversity and diversity in other places. Sure, the UK has its problems with bigotry too, but it still feels so different.
I've seen a couple of your posts. Is your daughter trans? I only ask because as a trans person I'm needing to get healthcare wherever I move to and my needs seem tog globally be getting more controversial. Any tips for getting out?
She is not, she's a lesbian. And unfortunately for you, we were lucky because of British law regarding me getting citizenship via my British father. I wish I had better news for you. I think every trans person needs to find a way out ASAP. Hopefully some country will start accepting trans asylum seekers. I sincerely wish you luck and hope you stay safe. And I feel the same for all of the trans people I know stuck in the U.S., including one of my daughter's close friends. I totally would have taken him with my if I could. His parents are only semi-supportive. No hormones, but they let him wear an uncomfortable chest binder to hide his breasts.
Thanks for the quick reply! I've wondered about Canadian citizenship through family ties before, but my mom would have to assert her citizenship first and that'd never happen!
Also thanks for your well wishes. It's a pretty trying time. We're good, my partner and I, for now since we live in a liberal city on the West Coast. But I've read books. How long will that last? Nobody knows right now.
I hope your daughter's friend is okay and stays safe!
I hope so too. I am so worried about him and every other queer person (not just trans people, they're just the first) in America. Because it's clear what this administration wants.
Last i heard Ireland is probably gonna be the premier refuge when things hit the fan. I know Japan has also been more accepting of refugees since the Ukraine war, but they still aren't the best country to live in. Vietnam apparently loves foreigners, but i don't think they are very progressive.
From what I have read about Japan, it's pretty unfriendly to queer people. Ireland is much, much more welcoming. Also, I don't know if they will be able to take refugees, but Scotland is generally considered one of the most LGBTQ-friendly places in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Scotland
They even have queer history classes required in school!
Japan is only decent in many respects if you compare it to America/where America is going, i just knew they were accepting more refugees than they historically have.
Currently looking at Australia or NZ.
NZ seems like a pretty good bet although I'd love to know what I'm getting into if anyone has more thoughts. And I've been to Australia. I know what I'm getting into there but god I like Brizzy. The most racist people I've ever met have been in Australia.
Ireland has been of interest, my stepsister lives there and is trans.
And France, Spain, Portugal all come to mind also.
I think most important part of this is being open and informed on a new set of challenges. Everywhere has their own problems and I need to know about them but frankly we have the luxury of picking. Some of my friends do not and will not. We are all scared of what the future brings.
My cousin and her wife live in Portugal and absolutely love it. She is having the best time. She says they do require you to learn Portuguese. She's a British/American dual national like me, but I have no idea what difference that makes.