When you hear an American politician mention privacy, it is almost always in context of abortion, HIV/AIDS, or some LGBTQIA issue like allowing children to take a hormone blocker without their parents knowledge and consent.
What is HIPAA really? It means everyone will share every last detail of your financial, insurance, diagnosis and treatment, with any local law enforcement, federal law enforcement, insurance, the intel community, CDC, NIH, research institutes, FDA, social security, IRS, HHS, DHS, even colleges and universities in many cases having access to your so called “privacy protected information.” BUT, if your wife wants to know anything, that'll require a special authorization!!!
Privacy where it truly matters, i.e. in your person and affects in regards to government and big business does not exist anymore.
Read a license agreement for MS Windows: Basically, anything you read, watch, listen to, webpage you navigate to, save, or install they give themselves permission to sample.
Agree.
Is my memory failing me or was HIPPA crowbared into place over the AIDs fiasco.