im just wondering if someone here smarter than me can answer this...
wouldnt revoking broadband privacy rules be a HIPAA violation? as i see it if you use your computer for checking your insurance, using a doctor's website, and hell even webmd (ugh) wouldnt that mean that data would now be being sold to whoever for marketing and therefore no longer a matter of privacy between you and your doctor but rather, anyone really?
i apologize in advance if this post gave anyone cancer.....
The internet does not concern your doctor, and thus, HIPPA does not apply.
yea...it does...i can go online and look up my files stored by my doctor...notes, prescriptions, etc.
so yea...it most DEFINITELY does
and thats not even mentioning insurance or just web searches
That information is secured by SSL/TLS and your ISP would not be able to see this information. Only that you went to that website from your dns / destination IP.
The only thing you would need to worry about is malware/spyware on your local machine.
Now if this was NOT over a secure connection, I'm sure there is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
right...but...if i were to go to my insurance's website and doctor's website after looking up VD on google you could get a pretty decent idea of my circumstances or at least someone close to me...i dont really care if the NSA knows that information, and malware and spyware aside you're right the particulars are otherwise secure...but a person can quite easily infer from the amalgamation of data being collected what is going on...that concerns me personally...my VD data (vdata?) shouldnt be sold to, well, anyone...unless i were able to chose to opt-in for some reason...and be able to pull-out if i chose (thatd never happen though)
i dont know hipaa too well but i think i can understand the intent of it and if repealing these privacy rules does NOT violate it, then hipaa wasn't written well enough or with a forward-looking viewpoint in my opinion
but still im wondering if anyone knows if it would actually violate that set of laws or not
Please re-read that.
yup...i meant what i wrote....in THIS case the VD i am referring to is venereal disease...using it as an example and let's expand upon that
if you see a computer looking up a variety of VD and searching questions about immunity and homeopathic cures you might think someone is a doctor or doing research in general, for a health class perhaps...
put that together with that same person frequenting a doctors website and insurance website, or say the walmart pharmacy site or something to that effect and it paints a different picture
and lets keep in mind that hipaa was written to PROTECT patient's privacy whereas this is being repealed to do the opposite so that some company somewhere can make more money through targetted advertisements...??? thats just downright ridiculous in my opinion...
That's why there are many laws that need to be re-written for the digital age but considering everyone in office is Pro-Big Business and Pro-making money off of the little guy, these changes will never happen.
everyone in office is Pro-Big Business and Pro-making money off of the little guy
and seemingly anti-science and technology....sadly...but yea i totally agree with you
I think we need to start speaking their language. Get together crowd funding campaigns to buy their views.
I agree that things like ISP snooping should be restricted; however, HIPAA protects patients from the practitioner, not the road they used to get there. It's really a ball of a different court we're talking about, here. Similar, but beyond the scope of something like HIPAA. Some FCC regulation that says "don't spy" could solve that.
ok so it sounds like @khaudio you're saying that it does NOT violate it then, thats interesting....and imo ethically wrong...but still interesting
It doesn't violate it, because the system isn't set up that way. I agree that it's wrong. Something needs to change, but I feel it falls on the shoulders of the FCC.
That's not very encouraging:(
Minnesota and Nevada already have legislation on the books which regulate what ISPs can do with their customer’s personal data. As far as I know, federalism has not been outlawed (yet), so there is no reason why the other 48 states can not similarly act on behalf of their citizens. They only need to know that it is important to you.
And another thing! Why is everyone so anxious to get the federal government involved? Everything they touch turns to crap. Hell, they are the ones who gave us the cable TV and ISP monopolies to begin with. As it stands, the ISPs need only bribe a relative handful of National politicians with legal campaign contributions, in order to get their way. On the other hand, there is no way that they can possibly bribe every key politician in every state of the country, where, unlike National politicians, the people still have some semblance of influence over their elected representatives.
They're not going to be collecting your PII, they'll just be collecting that you went to your doctors portal to look at your EMR data.
All point to point internet communications must be encrypted when you work in medical so no one (should) can see your actual EMR data.
That's actually an argument against federalism, not in favor of it, but yeah.