All the HIPAA training I’ve received says that HIPAA follows the chain of disclosure outward from the initial breach unless the person disclosing the information is deceived about patient consent or otherwise unknowingly receives or discloses the confidential patient information. Singal knew Reed did not have a right to that patient information or consent of the patients (in this case, their parents) to disclose it. So, by my understanding, HIPAA applies to both Reed and Singal. He’s no more layers removed from the patient confidential data than a medical journal, and a medical journal is most certainly subject to HIPAA if they publish confidential information without doing due diligence that consent was given by every patient involved.
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Some sutures are made from silk AND nylon AND polyester, which is forbidden to be worn, as per Leviticus.
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Holy. Hell.
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In most of those cases, like a medical journal, they are considered a business associate and would be easier to tie together. Journalists reporting on protected PII is a thing some track record with celebrity and sports reporting. The initial release is considered a breach, as is everything downstream of it, but the journalist isn’t on the hook, because they aren’t considered a covered entity. Singal would likely be represented by a good lawyer and there are enough hops that a lawyer would probably be able to dodge a HIPAA claim. The covered entity issue is the same reason that someone reading the story and talking about it isn’t a HIPAA violation. There’s better laws to hit him with.
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Jesse Singal published the material on his Substack, not in the Atlantic.
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She keeps hitting my radar. Okay, fine.
https://umbraxenu.no-ip.biz/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Child_and_Parental_Rights_Campaign
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Yup. FAAFO.
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They see it as an evangelical mission to save others from themselves, irrespective of any desires to the contrary on the part of those being hounded.
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knowingly and wrongfully obtaining and disclosing protected health information
Jamie Reed was told by clinic management to DELETE the file, and she didn’t. She hid a copy.
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It’s interesting that the TERs use the same tactics as climate change denialists.
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Likely with the same level of cognitive dissonance. Or just flat out lying their asses off. Looks very much the same from here.
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Really? Because he’s responsible for private information covered by HIPAA getting out.
Really? There is no “malice” on the part is Signal? Is transphobia not malice? Is outing children not malice?
It’s really fucking tedious to have to see here day, after day, people nit-picking apart the obvious abuse on a state level being aimed at children - CHILDREN - for who they happen to be… let’s get our act together here, and see what’s happening for what it is - an attack on children in the hopes of driving them into the closet or to death. Because that’s what shitbags like Signal are doing. Let’s stop trying to sugar coat this shit.
MALICE. He’s attacking children here.
It’s a playbook handed down by the fascists…
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If it turns out Singal and Reed are connected by Broyles, then RICO could be on the table.
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Good!
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Vernadette Broyles/Child and Parental Rights Campaign is probably just an extendable/expendable tool of Alliance Defending Freedom.
It’d be nice to hook them in too.
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And you know that even superficial digging will link them to Proud Boys/Oathkeepers/various other shitweasel dometic terrorists.
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Vernadette Broyles seems connected to the Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum, and there we are.
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That’s the thing with these domestic terrorists. There just aren’t very many of them, so they have to network and travel a lot in order to give the illusion of a “movement” instead of a few small groups of extremists.
I’ve heard a bunch of analysis on why next to nobody answered 45’s call to riot in NYC Tuesday, but it’s much simpler than all the psychosocial analysis: most of his followers who are up for violence are in jail or prison for Jan 6. That’s where the hardcore Trumpettes all showed up and got arrested on site or in the months that followed.
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Extraordinary malice, but that doesn’t make him a covered entity.
It is, but it doesn’t make him a covered entity. https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNProducts/Downloads/HIPAAPrivacyandSecurity.pdf The other laws also don’t have statutory caps. They are the bigger hammer. Reed’s malice matters because Reed is a covered entity and it moves them into the highest tier on HIPAA. I want him hit with the laws that will stop him, not the most prominent name people know.
Sounds good to me, but it is another one that is a ludicrously high bar.
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