HIPPA being used to avoid Covid19 contact tracing.

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Thursday September 03, 2020 · 9:13 PM PDT

2020/09/03 · 21:13

In my over 50 senior living less then 200 apartments my 80 some year old friend who I play cards with disappeared about about 4 weeks ago. A wellness inquire provided the answer his where about was known. Today he came back safe and healthy. I learned he somehow caught Covid19 and was in the hospital for four solid weeks.

I was never contact traced. The building did issue a general letter that a resident had tested positive. We suspecteed it was him but we were not sure of it. The letter did not provide a name or say said person was hospitalized. Letter just said person has been isolated. I was never personally spoken to.

No information was provided that allowed a person to self assess exposure.

Upon my friend’s return and learning the truth I confronted management that I and two other fellow card players should have been self-isolated. Fortunately none of us came down with Covid19. Basically management hide behind HIPPA using it as a policy to avoid internal contact tracing at a level the CDC could never provide.

So when you read stories of nursing homes being ravaged this is a one reason why of many.

Now having said all this. How does one do contact tracing with paranoid cognitively impaired population? Quite the dilemma.

Shame on you PayPal!

BearCan

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday July 19, 2015 · 4:14 PM PDT

2015/07/19 · 16:14

This week someone tried to steal my identity on #Twitter and #PayPal.

Come into my Get Smart (tv show) sound proof room as I tell the tale of thwarting this most neferious plot.

BearCan

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday July 17, 2015 · 6:33 PM PDT

2015/07/17 · 18:33

Wired magazine has this wonderful article discussing how the federal government is causing an uproar in the software security community over new rules to stop the finding & distributing of tools & found hacks.

The Wassenaar Arrangement, also known as Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies is 100% backwards in terms of stopping the bad guys from using the newest found security leak also called a zero day exploit.

Jump below the famous squiggles for one person's thoughts about this important subject.

RSS

HIPPA being used to avoid Covid19 contact tracing.

Shame on you PayPal!

Proposals to new software export rules will regulate the wrong things.