‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It’s only illegal if you can’t afford the fines. As businesses routinely prove, if your company is big enough they just budget for fines.

      • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        HIPAA fines are massive for now. So the cost risk doesn’t work for them yet. But I’m sure some politicians will find a way to make it just the cost of doing business soon.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      They will find a way around it. Maybe they will claim it doesn’t count because it is tried to metadata and not an individual person.

      • expr@programming.devEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        HIPPA is no joke and companies actually don’t fuck around with it. It’s not worth it. It’s one of the few pieces of consumer protection out there that has real teeth. Under HIPPA, you are expressly forbidden from using personal health information for anything unrelated to that patient’s care, and companies can and are fined heavily for violating it.