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That would be a violation of HIPAA.
I was referring to the website. This article goes in a lot more detail about how it works.
I’m pretty sure they are consulting lawyers to see how much data they can sell to third parties without breaking the law.
For non-medical data, sure. That’s not an uncommon form of data collection. It’s a complete violation of HIPAA to use something like that on medical databases.
space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I was referring to the website. This article goes in a lot more detail about how it works.
I’m pretty sure they are consulting lawyers to see how much data they can sell to third parties without breaking the law.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 months ago
For non-medical data, sure. That’s not an uncommon form of data collection. It’s a complete violation of HIPAA to use something like that on medical databases.