Noah Vail
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join:2004-12-10
Lorton, VA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| FISA, HIPAA & EIEIO.
With great FanFare, our Beltway Protectors passed the HIPPA act, insuring billions of dollars of compliance costs every year.
Exactly how many people, violate my privacy, through my medical records? It could be as many as Zero, per year. NOBODY CARES about my medical secrets. Most days, I don't care.
The worst part about these types of privacy laws is that they don't do anything to thwart the types of privacy violations that might actually occur.
Individuals rarely have any interest in somebody else's private data. Mostly, because peoples secrets are BORING. Half the time we can't get away from someone trying to verbally publish their life story to us, including medical.
Companies, on the other hand, violate my privacy every day. Why? Because it's LUCRATIVE.
The collection of purchases, habits, preferences, actions, memberships and other ancillary things that make up my life are my life's work. They are my creation, same as a song or book might be. I choose who I will distribute my life's work to, by interaction with them or story telling.
That other people can take my life's work and profit from it, when I have made no decision to market it, is piracy. It's not even personal use piracy (if such a thing exists), it's distribution for profit piracy.
HIPAA has done nothing to protect me.
I'm pretty sure the CEO of Henry Schein, my local sheriff, or the IRS could acquire my complete medical history if they truly wanted it. Any of the above have far more chance of impacting my life in a way I do not desire, then farmer Burt and Aunt Ethel in PikeSnot MN. Yet, HIPAA targets Burt and Ethel and ignores people with actual power.
Maybe that was a HIPPA goal, to maintain the existing power structures.
Now I have a huge government intelligence entity who is actively pursuing (and getting) as complete a copy of my internet traffic as possible. The whole argument for FISA wiretaps is that they wouldn't impact Burt and Ethel calling about their grandchildren.
Now the NSA is attempting to collect every email Burt and Ethel will ever send about their grandkids, and their bank account traffic, and their purchase habits, and....
Is anyone here getting this? The NSA is moving toward the goal of permanently recording everyones complete internet history. They have been taking bids on the database development and equipment necessary to store and sort what they collect. We are moving closer to cost efficiency of parsing and maintaining those huge data stores.
How many years until ISPs will be forced to regularly forward their IP assignment and use records? I bet we see movement on it in less than 5 years. (Yea, whatever. 5 years ago you thought the idea of the NSA copying main internet pipes was paranoid.)
I don't understand
why so many people
who want a warrant
for law enforcement to share
a small part of their life,
will turn around and allow LE to copy their life's data with no accountability at all.
Why yes, that WAS the stupidest thing you've ever seen Americans do.
You are not your own for much longer. We are all becoming wards of the state.
NV
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