• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    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?

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      1 day ago

      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 🫠