On 8/19/22 1:33 PM, glen wrote:
No, as I understand it, HIPAA would *not* be violated. That's a common
(right wing) trope.
I guess I erred toward the idea that if I had *legitimate* access to
medical info that it would be a violation. I *think* anyone with
legitimate access to HIPPA information has to sign agreements that bind
them whether they are licensed medical professionals or not? It seems
like a double-ding if you ARE licensed, risking both criminal charges
and losing a license?
I think I agree that simply "finding" or unknowingly "receiving" HIPPA
protected information is likely just a question of ethics and bad faith?
I still worry that spying on and disclosing (semi) private data about
elected officials might be a crime of some kind. But you're the PI. So
you'd know!
Seems like there has been plenty of doxxing of elected officials... if
such is illegal then maybe the current practice of loose/difficult
enforcement means it isn't much of a problem for some?
I haven't been a PI for 40 years, but I do admit that sometimes I use
that lens when thinking about things. I quit that mini-career for a
combination of practical and ethical reasons. There really wasn't much
"righteous" work when it came right down to it. Also helping make
world-ending WMDs somehow seemed more ethical at the time?
I doubt I could stomach much clandestine surveillance as implied, much
less actual disclosure of the results... It isn't about what they
"deserve" it is about who I am willing to be? For a few months in 2016
I had a direct-action project conception titled "take a Dump for Trump"
that was modeled on the old Halloween trick of a bag of burning dogshit
on a porch... but I had to let that go for similar reasons.
On 8/19/22 12:25, Steve Smith wrote:
GEPR -
This sounds like a fantastic project for a public OSINT challenge.
You *know* all those codgers have terrible OpSec, probably order
their drugs through the USPS or worse, have their underpaid,
over-abused admin assistants pick 'em up at the drive through window
of the pharmacy. A good camera and a parabolic mic and Bob's your
uncle. >8^D
It's probably a crime, though.
yah... busting into their records would be... HPPA and all that
(which I support).
Your version (distance scrutiny of public behaviour/sigInt) would not
be (on the surface anyway). Like Jack Sweeney's
Billionaire-Jet-Tracking efforts. Sometimes this kind of work
<https://www.amazon.com/Trevor-Paglen-Unseen-John-Jacob/dp/1911282336/ref=pd_bxgy_sccl_2/147-8329599-4719344?pd_rd_w=x3mIb&content-id=amzn1.sym.7757a8b5-874e-4a67-9d85-54ed32f01737&pf_rd_p=7757a8b5-874e-4a67-9d85-54ed32f01737&pf_rd_r=9R7EAMZEBWZ0R3F49MCB&pd_rd_wg=IJDl5&pd_rd_r=28b14ca2-d8a3-4908-b468-520b2a8d0114&pd_rd_i=1911282336&psc=1>
verges on (performance?) Art...
I personally would not want to see *anyone* busted for their chemical
(or other technological) augmentation in any harsh way, but I would
not mind seeing it included in a low-level pressure campaign to shift
the average elected office encumbent age downward. I'm happy if
Bernie Sanders was juicing a little for the last Senate all-nighter
(tactically) but not so happy that such things may have become
standard practice (like steroids Mr. Universe and WWF but not in
Olympic Weight LIfting and Chess-Boxing). JFK, FDR and who knows how
many (other) TLA-presidents had their own personal physician juicing
them for things the public was unaware of... performance enhancing
or remedial, what is the line?
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