shorter wellmark: "There's 1 medically fragile, teenage boy in IA. Be a shame if something happened to him, your premiums would all go down"https://twitter.com/jenhab/status/870306536630910976 …
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Replying to @mattbc
There were lots of "buy the insured a house in IL" comments made at first (because a bigger risk pool wouldn't be as skewed by an outlier)
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Replying to @mattbc
Perhaps encouraged by those comments, Wellmark's Laura Jackson decided to out the kid. Iowa's got a small pop. Hemophilia's pretty rate.pic.twitter.com/OV512d97Yq
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Replying to @mattbc
With a relatively modest budget I could prob find the kid inside of a month. By broadcasting this kids PHI Wellmark's Laura Jackson has
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Replying to @mattbc
catalyzed the witch hunt for a medically fragile teenage boy. There aren't that many teenage hemophiliacs in Iowa. Imagine what it's like
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Replying to @mattbc
to be one of them today: anyone who knows, now suspects you're the 12 million dollar kid. Even if you aren't. Will they tell others?
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Replying to @mattbc
Almost certainly. Will word get out via social media? Almost certainly. Will someone try to hurt you as a result?
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Replying to @mattbc
With such easy re-identification this may very well be a HIPAA violation
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Yup, but HIPAA relies on gov't enforcement. In my jurisdiction, I'd sue for invasion of privacy, negligence, IIED, etc.
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ugh, it does, doesn't it. Yet another civil protection likely to be evaporated in all practical terms under this admin.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
yup,
@ProPublica did a decent-ish analysis of data on thishttps://www.propublica.org/article/few-consequences-for-health-privacy-law-repeat-offenders …0 replies 1 retweet 4 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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