[IP] more on Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online
Begin forwarded message:
From: Craig Partridge <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 15, 2005 2:27:37 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Feds Expose Health Records Of Evacuees Online
Words fail me. Has anyone even bothered to inform the victims that
they're about to be victimized *again* by having their personal data
exposed to anyone and everyone?
---Rsk
My understanding is that the database has been created to reconstruct
medical records for folks whose records are lost -- I understand there
are a number of healthcare situations right now where having such a
database
is essential. And note it is being made available only to health care
providers.
The larger question is "how long is the database going to exist?"
Creating it for a few weeks transition in an emergency is perhaps
an acceptable privacy risk/health reward tradeoff.
Craig
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