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		syndicatedjelly on Oct 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No federal privacy law? After the 23andMe hack, it... I see. Sounds like HIPAA was written for a world that no longer exists.

thfuran on Oct 25, 2023 [–]

It was written with a narrow focus on regulating the healthcare system rather than explicitly and comprehensively protecting a class of data, so it just wasn't meant to impose any restriction on every other party a person might disclose medical information to.

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