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Posted on 10/17/2013 11:12:11 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
The Weekly Standard has revealed yet another reason to mistrust the Affordable Care Act and the intentions of its authors. On October 1st, the Healthcare.gov website proudly announced that “Open Enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace is Here.” What the site did NOT proudly announce is the following:
“You have no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system. At any time, and for any lawful Government purpose, the government may monitor, intercept, and search and seize any...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
Why?
The lowlifes won’t care.
Obamacare is just another confiscation scam. Take from the makers, give to the takers.
The takers could care less about “privacy”. They routinely lie to get freebies, why would they worry about something like this?
fyi...
https://www.healthcare.gov/privacy/
HealthCare.gov Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is very important to us. We’re telling you about HealthCare.gov’s privacy policy so you know what information we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it.
HealthCare.gov doesn’t collect any personally identifiable information (PII) about you during your visit to our website unless you choose to provide it to us. We do, however, collect information from visitors who read, browse, and/or download information from our site. We do this so we can understand how the public uses the site and how to make it more helpful.
Healthcare.gov never collects information for commercial marketing or any purpose unrelated to our mission and goals.
Types of information we collect
When you browse through any website, certain information about your visit can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following types of information about your visit:
Domain from which you access the Internet
IP address (an IP or internet protocol address is a number that is automatically given to a computer connected to the Web)
Operating system on your computer and information about the browser you used when visiting the site
Date and time of your visit
Pages you visited
Address of the website that connected you to HealthCare.gov (such as google.com or bing.com)
We use this information to measure the number of visitors to our site and its various sections and to help make our site more useful to visitors.
How HealthCare.gov uses information it collects
HealthCare.gov uses a variety of Web measurement software tools. We use them to collect the information listed in the “Types of information collected” section above. The tools collect information automatically and continuously. No personally identifiable information is collected by these tools.
The HealthCare.gov staff analyzes and reports on the collected data from these tools. The reports are available only to HealthCare.gov managers, members of the HealthCare.gov communications and Web teams, and other designated staff who need this information to perform their duties.
HealthCare.gov also uses an online survey to collect opinions and feedback. This online survey appears on the bottom left of many pages on the site. You don’t have to answer these questions. Please do not to include any personally identifiable information (PII) in comments you make. We analyze and use this information to improve the site’s operation and content. The reports are available only to HealthCare.gov managers, members of the communications and Web teams, and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties.
HealthCare.gov keeps the data from our measurement tools as long as needed to support the mission of the website.
How HealthCare.gov uses cookies
The Office of Management and Budget Memo M-10-22, Guidance for Online Use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies, allows federal agencies to use session and persistent cookies.
When you visit any website, its server may generate a piece of text known as a “cookie” to place on your computer. The cookie allows the server to “remember” specific information about your visit while you are connected. The cookie makes it easier for you to use the dynamic features of Web pages. Cookies from HealthCare.gov pages collect only information about your browser’s visit to the site. They do not collect personal information about you.
There are two types of cookies, single session (temporary), and multi-session (persistent). Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your computer for longer periods.
Session Cookies: We use session cookies for technical purposes such as to allow better navigation through our site. These cookies let our server know that you are continuing a visit to our site. The OMB Memo 10-22 Guidance defines our use of session cookies as “Usage Tier 1—Single Session.” The policy says, “This tier encompasses any use of single session web measurement and customization technologies.”
Persistent Cookies: We use persistent cookies to understand the differences between new and returning HealthCare.gov visitors. Persistent cookies remain on your computer between visits to our site until they expire. The OMB Memo 10-22 Guidance defines our use of persistent cookies as “Usage Tier 2—Multi-session without Personally Identifiable Information (PII).” The policy says, “This tier encompasses any use of multi-session Web measurement and customization technologies when no PII is collected.”
How to opt out or disable cookies
If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies placed on your computer, you can disable them using your Web browser. If you opt out of cookies, you will still have access to all information and resources at HealthCare.gov. Instructions for disabling or opting out of cookies in the most popular browsers are located at http://www.usa.gov/optout_instructions.shtml.
Please note that by opting out of cookies, you will disable cookies from all sources, not just from HealthCare.gov.
How we protect your personal information
You do not have to give us personal information to visit HealthCare.gov. However, if you choose to receive alerts or e-newsletters, we collect your email address to complete the subscription process.
If you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information through an email message, request for information, paper or electronic form, questionnaire, survey, etc., we will maintain the information you provide only as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.
If in order to contact you we store your personal information in a record system designed to retrieve information about you by personal identifier (name, personal email address, home mailing address, personal or mobile phone number, etc.), we will safeguard the information you provide in accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. Section 552a).
If HealthCare.gov operates a record system designed to retrieve information about you in order to accomplish its mission, a Privacy Act Notification Statement should be prominently and conspicuously displayed on the public-facing website or form which asks you to provide personally identifiable information. The notice must address the following five criteria:
HealthCare.gov legal authorization to collect information about you
Purpose of the information collection
Routine uses for disclosure of information outside of HealthCare.gov
Whether the request made of you is voluntary or mandatory under law
Effects of non-disclosure if you choose to not provide the requested information
For further information about HealthCare.gov privacy policy, please contact Privacy@cms.hhs.gov.
Data safeguards and privacy
All uses of Web-based technologies comply with existing privacy and data safeguarding policies and standards. Information Technology (IT) systems owned and operated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are assessed using Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) posted for public view on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website (http://www.hhs.gov/pia). CMS conducts and publishes a PIA for each use of a third-party website and application (TPWA) as they may have a different functionality or practice. TPWA PIAs are posted for public view on the HHS website at http://www.hhs.gov/pia.
Groups of records that contain information about an individual and are designed to be retrieved by the individual’s name or other personal identifier linked to the individual are covered by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. Section 552a). For these records, CMS Systems of Record Notices are published in the Federal Register and posted on the CMS Senior Official for Privacy Website.
When you visit CMS sites, please look for the Privacy Notice posted on the main pages. When Web measurement and customization technologies are used, the Privacy Policy/Notice must provide:
Purpose of the web measurement and/or customization technology
Usage tier, session type, and technology used
Nature of the information collected
Purpose and use of the information
Whether and to whom the information will be disclosed
Privacy safeguards applied to the information
Data retention policy for the information
Whether the technology is enabled by default or not and why
How to opt out of the web measurement/customization technology
Statement that opting out still permits users to access comparable information or services
Identities of all third-party vendors involved in the measurement and customization process
How long we keep data and how we access it
HealthCare.gov will keep data collected long enough to achieve the specified objective for which they were collected. The data generated from these activities falls under the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General Records Schedule (GRS) 20-item IC “Electronic Records,” and will be handled according to the requirements of that schedule (http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/grs/grs20.html).
How HealthCare.gov uses third-party websites and applications
As a response to OMB Memo M-10-06, Open Government Directive, HealthCare.gov uses a variety of technologies and social media services to communicate and interact with citizens. These third-party website and application (TPWA) tools include popular social networking and media sites, open source software communities, and more. Examples include Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
TPWAs are not exclusively operated or controlled by HealthCare.gov. Users of TPWAs often share information with the general public, user community, and/or the third party operating the website. These actors may use this information in a variety of ways. TPWAs could cause PII to become available or accessible to HealthCare.gov and the public, regardless of whether the information is explicitly asked for or collected by us.
HealthCare.gov sometimes collects and uses your PII if you made it available through third-party websites. However, we do not share PII made available through third-party websites. Your activity on the third-party websites we use is governed by the security and privacy policies of those sites. You should review the third-party privacy policies before using the sites and ensure that you understand how your information may be used.
If you have an account with a third-party website and choose to “like,” “friend,” follow, or comment, certain PII associated with your account may be made available to HealthCare.gov based on the privacy policy of the third-party website and your privacy settings within that website. You should adjust privacy settings on your account to match your preferences.
Links to other sites
HealthCare.gov links to other HHS sites, other government sites, and occasionally to private organizations. Once you leave HealthCare.gov, you are subject to the privacy policy for the sites you are visiting. HHS is not responsible for the contents of any off-site web page. A link to a page does not constitute an endorsement.
Additional Privacy information
If you are an applicant on the individual Marketplace, read our Individual Privacy Act statement.
If you are an agent or broker, read our Agent and Broker Privacy Act statement
Learn more about how we use your individual Marketplace information.
Why worry. NSA’s already got all your stuff.
So the question is: If the right to privacy designated in Roe v. Wade is widely accepted (especially by leftists) as the Law of the Land, wouldn’t that mean that the government has no right to our personal healthcare information?
Doesn’t that put Obamacare at odds with Roe v. Wade, and thus render it unconstitutional? Of course I realize that the Supreme Court ruled Obamacare to be constitutionally valid, but that is because the right to privacy was never brought up in the arguments to be considered, nor addressed in the Court’s decision.
This has. of course, been more or less the rule for .gov websites for 25 years or so. Usually you’d get that as the opening screen.
about 10 years ago I overheard a black female who worked as a file clerk for the VA in a position where she could access veteran records gossiping to a friend of hers on the phone about something in mine..
I was in the next room but I could heard her loud mouth..
Her access to my records was actually not required for her job and she never interacted personally with veterans or me and she was breaking the law..
It wasnt anything embarrassing just something she thought she could exploit..
She even read off a quote or 2 for effect..when I heard it I was astounded and laughed silently..she was dumb..
her friend was not employed by the VA but was a mutual acquantaince of mine..
and I heard the black female argue that it was OK for her to tell other people what was in my private medical records..
10 years ago it was against the law and she should have been fired ...and charged..
Today its not against the law and she would get a promotion..
thats the difference..
Good question. Here’s my thought. The Supreme Court ruled that obamacare’s requirement of proof of health insurance and subsequent potential fine is a tax. The IRS requires very sensitive information from everyone who submits a tax return. To comply with the tax code Americans must submit this info and that has never been subject to privacy protection.
In other words because it’s now a tax they have the right to the information. Thank SCOTUS.
I hope EVERY Hollywood celebrity PIMP for 0bamacare has their medical records with lists of all of their STD’s and mental disorders HACKED VIA HEALTHCARE.GOV AND COMPROMISED and plastered throughout social media. I need a good belly laugh!
We had to pass it to find out what was in it.
It just keeps getting worser and worser.
Yes I know that’s not correct English, but a lot of Obama voters understand that better.
But, of course, they don't care.
HIPAA is dead. Privacy was once honored and cherished in American society. Sad to see it go. Another casualty of the FOREIGN IDEOLOGY IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
The only people that are signing up for 0-care are scumbag leftists and idiots. They will get their ID ripped off and false insurance claims will be submitted on their behalf. If they do have credit cards or banks accounts, they can say bye bye to them.
The 0-supporters are sheep and the hammer will drop on them first. At least they are so blissfully ignorant, brain dead and numb that they might not even feel it.
I cant even find the terms and conditions PAGE on that hellacious site.
we need a MUCH LARGER and thus clearer more LEGIBLE..screen shot of the Ne expectation....section hidden in the code...but alas without gaining access to the terms and conditions page....I cant make one.
I wont be going to that site
So the fact that we have to sign a tax return under penalty of perjury violates our 5th amendment protection against self-incrimination, especially since tax law requires you to report income from illegal activity. Not to mention being subject to an audit violates our 4th amendment rights against search and seizure.
As far as I know, these arguments has never been put before the Supreme Court regarding IRS practices, but they should be.
But besides that, Obamacare forces us to make our personal medical histories available to the government, and that cannot be relevant to the collection of a tax.
I agree the way our tax code is enforced does appear to be unconstitutional...as are so many other things our government does ( for example the twisting of freedom of religion to mean freedom from religion)
I do not know the circumstances under which the government will be accessing health records through obamacare. I do know that health information is required to receive reimbursement for medicare payment. the difference being of course that people have freely chosen to enroll in medicare. My understanding is that insurance companies will be running the health plans within exchanges, I would imagine that the need to look at medical records would come from the expansion of medicaid.
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