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Comment by exabrial | Hacker News Reader

I really want these people handling my healthcare and other details about my life.

Private healthcare is much worse, seemingly they have an open access policy. New breaches occur in the order of millions per week. Not remotely newsworthy anymore. (last time this was mainstream worthy was 200M leaked records in 2024). Last week https://www.securityweek.com/4-1-million-impacted-by-adapthe... Week before that https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/more-9-5-million-pati... 2 weeks before that: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/carecloud-confirms-...

And it will remain this was as long as the consequences of not protecting our data remain trivial.

if only we prosecuted corporations as people instead of just giving them the civil liberties of one

In my experience, any industry following a security standard halts all effort at security once they're compliant with the standard. HIPAA sets a minimum but seems to also guarantee you will get exactly that minimum and nothing better.

The only thing HIPAA guarantees is that when your data is handed out, there was a policy around it.

Not true, it makes investigating medical fraud almost impossible.

Which people? This leak was caused completely by private businesses.

I'm confused about the read on this too. It reads like a "I don't want the government involved in my healthcare" type of statement, but it's posted in the discussion section of an article about private companies mishandling data.

You want an ID verification company handling healthcare? Even if you're a staunch believer in free enterprise this seems like a capability mismatch.

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