Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years | TechCrunch
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The health insurance giant is notifying at least 4.7 million patients of the security lapse.
  • obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    It’s a great example of why I push for the use of technologies where I don’t have to trust companies to play nice with my data. If I use (correctly implemented) end to end encryption then you physically can’t access my data.

  • bramen49@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Is it really a breach or a major fsckup that needs to be legally dealt with? Sounds more like an ‘oops! Shared everything’ that ‘evil hackers steal tons of PHI’

    • meathappening@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It’s really the latter, but the laws requiring notification are structured in a way that it’s considered a breach because the end result is the same for the individuals affected.