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How is it legal for them to give our health information to AI?????????? Without explicit consent?? And why are they able to access and look through it like this, when normally records are protected from this?
I can think of several reason by the way this should be illegal:
The short answer is there's a good chunk of Americans on some form of Medicaid (regardless of what name it wears) and in exchange for healthcare provided by the government, they give access of their medical PII to the government because the government is their healthcare insurance provider.
But that doesn't mean any rando in the government can access anyone's health data on a whim, legally. You have to have a reason to access it. Even just accessing date of birth is protected.
Listen. I don't disagree with you. But 2 things. 1. The government used to have people in it that would uphold such restrictions on access. Lots of those people have been culled by the current administration. 2. The government didn't need a reason to input your data into a computer program for access when they switched over from paper files. They didn't need a reason when they switched to a more "universal" health data management system as the technology evolved. And they will say that this is just another evolution of that technology. So in essence they already have their "reason" and they already have people in place who will let them get away with it.