Biometrics

[Nancy Palmquist]

Fairlight wrote:
 
> That's ironic, Nancy.  Have you familiarised yourself with HIPPA at all?
> Wasn't part of the deal that the government would be the storage house for
> all medical records?  it was either HIPPA itself, or it was closely-related
> legislation.  It was also hotly contested.  I also believe the people lost
> and the government won.  I'd have to look it up to confirm, but I recall
> the huge debates and petition campaigns.  I know I signed one of the
> petitions against it at the time.

HIPPA related to security and privacy of personal data of all kinds not
just medical. It did not entitle the government to have access to that
data, it gave rules and guidelines as to how people that held that data
were allowed to use it, share it and access it.

I think that sums it up pretty well.

Nancy
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