Woman’s Talkspace Therapy App Sessions Exposed in Court - “We know that information that's been anonymized can very easily be reidentified,” “[HIPAA] is not enough protection.”

https://www.proofnews.org/womans-talkspace-therapy-app-sessions-exposed-in-court/

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treadful@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 93d

I can't think of anything more horrifying that having therapy sessions leaked.

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 93d (1 reply)

HIPAA was never a protection, quite opposite.

KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 93d

Would you like to elaborate?

0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 92d

If the app and servers are based in the US, they will have an identification loophole somewhere in the supply chain.

They control the Internet backbones, the prominent operating systems, and the servers.

Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 87d

If they can pull a specific person's transcripts for court then the data isn't anonymized at all.