Private healthcare is much worse, seemingly they have an open access policy. New breaches occur in the order of millions per week. Not remotely newsworthy anymore. (last time this was mainstream worthy was 200M leaked records in 2024). Last week https://www.securityweek.com/4-1-million-impacted-by-adapthe... Week before that https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/more-9-5-million-pati... 2 weeks before that: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/general/carecloud-confirms-...

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Libcat99 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And it will remain this was as long as the consequences of not protecting our data remain trivial.

	▲	paimapi 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		if only we prosecuted corporations as people instead of just giving them the civil liberties of one

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dlcarrier 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

In my experience, any industry following a security standard halts all effort at security once they're compliant with the standard. HIPAA sets a minimum but seems to also guarantee you will get exactly that minimum and nothing better.

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sidewndr46 3 days ago | parent [-]

The only thing HIPAA guarantees is that when your data is handed out, there was a policy around it.

	▲	suburban_strike 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not true, it makes investigating medical fraud almost impossible.