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[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To target some random dude that received a silly prescription? Why go through all the effort when you could just pick a random residential address?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It’s not about motivation. It’s about “is it feasibly possible to actually identify a person from this partially-obscured PHI”. But also, who the fuck knows if they’re going to care about enforcing PHI and HIPAA laws now 🫠

my medical records were intentionally leaked a few times. HHS did jack fucking shit.