by UTC » Thu Aug 03, 2017 7:03 pm
Let's get something straight about HIPPA. Neither the lawyers, the judge, or any individual in that court room could violate HIPPA if they broke into a hospital and handed out every patient's medical records on the street. HIPPPA enacts privacy rules for certain "covered entities", including insurers, benefit plans, benefit funds, employers and their agents. None of the persons involved in this case are covered entities under HIPPA. While there may be a general invasion of privacy tort involved, HIPPA is 100% irrelevant to this case. Irizarry should know this 101 stuff. By the way, whether there is a right to privacy to something you discarded has been decided a million times also. There isn't, although a particular use of it may violate something else.
Let's get something straight about HIPPA. Neither the lawyers, the judge, or any individual in that court room could violate HIPPA if they broke into a hospital and handed out every patient's medical records on the street. HIPPPA enacts privacy rules for certain "covered entities", including insurers, benefit plans, benefit funds, employers and their agents. None of the persons involved in this case are covered entities under HIPPA. While there may be a general invasion of privacy tort involved, HIPPA is 100% irrelevant to this case. Irizarry should know this 101 stuff. By the way, whether there is a right to privacy to something you discarded has been decided a million times also. There isn't, although a particular use of it may violate something else.