Emily Mullin tweets that information shared on social media platforms is not covered by HIPAA & Facebook is not obligated to protect it.
Isobelle Winter screams that readers should not use this tool; that it is dangerous in how it lowers our "reasonable expectation of privacy," which is what our legal protections are based on.
blueandbluer:
spoonie-living:
[Image: Tweet by Emily Mullin (@EmilyLMullin) and tweet by Isobelle Winter (@IsobelleWinter), both about the dangers of Facebook’s new preventative health screening tool. Images have been modified for visual ease but information has not been changed.]
Something to know about Facebook’s new “screening tool,” and advice/info that can most certainly be used outside of this specific situation.
For spoonies, the biggest deal is how this data, if leaked, could affect you in professional and insurance spheres.
Here’s Emily’s full thread, which discusses the details of the tool, and here’s Isobelle’s full thread, which extrapolates on specific dangers.
In the end? It’s another data grab. Data is worth money; don’t give yours away, especially not to Facebook.
PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST this shit is scary.
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