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Telegram will disclose users' IP adresses and phone numbers to authorities, Durov says
  • I think there's misconceptions, trust being put in the wrong place, unawareness involved, or simply they don't think it through, rather than not caring (anectodal/IMO). E.g. "I don't have anything to hide, so what if they collect everything".

    If we could build a tool to gather such info, that's easily accessible and for free, to show all the data available on you in the marketplace - that might make them uncomfortable. And then perhaps they'll start to try and understand why they're uncomfortable, and why this is bad.

  • TIL - HIPAA doesn't protect data from being shared between organizations without consent
  • Hypothetically, they can ask for consent from patients, with some form that allows investigative agencies to access contact information of patients for such cases. I think there are other options other than sending it without consent and even the knowledge of the patients.

  • TIL - HIPAA doesn't protect data from being shared between organizations without consent
  • From what I understand from the video and the regulation definition under Health Care Operations there are many ways for the provider to share the data without consent (page 2: https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/sharingfortpo.pdf).

    “Health care operations” are certain administrative, financial, legal, and quality improvement activities of a covered entity that are necessary to run its business and to support the core functions of treatment and payment. These activities, which are limited to the activities listed in the definition of “health care operations” at 45 CFR 164.501, include: < Conducting quality assessment and improvement activities, population- based activities relating to improving health or reducing health care costs, and case management and care coordination; < Reviewing the competence or qualifications of health care professionals, evaluating provider and health plan performance, training health care and non-health care professionals, accreditation, certification, licensing, or credentialing activities; < Underwriting and other activities relating to the creation, renewal, or replacement of a contract of health insurance or health benefits, and ceding, securing, or placing a contract for reinsurance of risk relating to health care claims; < Conducting or arranging for medical review, legal, and auditing services, including fraud and abuse detection and compliance programs; Business planning and development, such as conducting cost-management and planning analyses related to managing and operating the entity; and Business management and general administrative activities, including those related to implementing and complying with the Privacy Rule and other Administrative Simplification Rules, customer service, resolution of internal grievances, sale or transfer of assets, creating de-identified health information or a limited data set, and fundraising for the benefit of the covered entity.

    Is that the first hurdle you were mentioning? I'm just trying to understand where is the restriction of the second hurdle if in 164.506 it says an entity can use the data:

    "Use or disclose protected health information for its own treatment, payment, and health care operations activities"

    Trying to understand the distinction add have another TIL moment, not aeguing against the comment

  • TIL - HIPAA doesn't protect data from being shared between organizations without consent

    It obviously protects against sharing data with e.g. your employer, but if a health provider chooses to make your data shareable, there are 2.2M authorized entities that can potentially access the data (identifiable health data).

    Excerpt of the video description: Most people think that HIPAA means that their medical records are kept private. But what if I told you that HIPAA doesn’t protect your privacy at all?

    This is our first video in a series about medical privacy, specifically looking at legislation that stripped individuals of the right to consent to medical data sharing.

    We focus on what HIPAA actually is, how it came to allow our data to be shared without us even knowing, how we’ve been tricked into thinking we have privacy, and steps we can take to reclaim control of our medical data.

    00:00 The State of Medical Privacy is a Mess 02:29 What is HIPAA 07:39 How Your Data is Shared 12:10 The Illusion of Privacy 14:48 What Can We Do 22:16 We Deserve Medical Privacy

    We deserve privacy in our medical system. Our health information is sensitive, and we should be allowed to protect it. Even while we fight for better medical privacy, please always prioritize your health.

    Special Thanks to: Twila Brase, Rob Frommer, and Keith Smith for chatting to us!

    List of doctors who have opted out of the surveillance system: https://jointhewedge.com/

    Twila's website: https://www.cchfreedom.org/patient-toolbox/

    Do you want to fight the system and lead a suit against medical data collection? Contact the Institute for Justice: https://ij.org/

    Keith Smith's Surgery Center: https://surgerycenterok.com/

    Brought to you by NBTV team members: Lee Rennie, Cube Boy, Sam Ettaro, Will Sandoval and Naomi Brockwell

    Edit: changed the title to something that isn't misleading

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    Linux dev swatted and handcuffed live during a development video stream — perps remain unidentified
  • From the link's comments, someone thought: "The police (no matter the country involved here) went way over the top on this. An anonymous e-mail is nowhere near enough evidence to go arresting/detaining someone without a thorough investigation first. The only possible exceptions being domestic violence, child abuse or a homicide in progress."

  • F-Droid APKs aren't synced with releases

    I keep getting notified that I should upgrade my newpipe apk to a newer version through a url. F-Droid only has up to v0.25.2 but the latest is v0.26.1. It's been like that for >1w (the discrepancy), is this usual for F-Droid repos? Or something with my installation is wrong?

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    Any Lyft 3rd party apps out there?

    Lyft disabled scheduling rides through ride.lyft.com, I used that quite a bit but now in forced go use the app. The problem however, is that their app just doesn't work. It launches, says the Google API is necessary and then continues to close.

    Does anyone know of an app that use their API that doesn't shut itself down without installing Google SDK?

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    Can you buy your own data tosee what they have on you?

    I saw an article awhile ago that the police just straight up bought ad-network data about someone they were prosecuting without needing a warrant. Is there anyway to know what info ad networks have on me out there?

    I know there are databrokers you can query to see what they have kn you, but those are all public records from I could find so far

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    BattleBitRemastered @lemmy.world Scolding7300 @lemmy.world
    Do people automatically consent to the death voixe chat?

    I noticed quite a bit of people not knowing you can opt out of the dead voice chat recording (where it transmits your mic audio when you die for a couple of seconds).

    When I installed the game there was a prompt that asked for an opt-in, that was pretty short to read.

    Do you think people automatically click "I consent" or is the prompt not very clear?

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    Aside from the lack of E2EE, why is Telegram not trustworthy?

    A lot of privacy guides suggest avoiding Telegram. I understand that in its default mode there's no E2EE (and no E2EE for groups at all). If people I know don't wanttko use Signal, isn't Telegram the lesser evil given it's nicer privacy policy (than other popular ones)?

    Say I use the FOSS version of it.

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