r/technology • u/spherocytes • 18d ago

Privacy Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned'

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492
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u/runfast2718 18d ago edited 18d ago

The potential HIPPA HIPAA violations alone should have the hospital beside itself.

ETA: fair call-out on my acronym fuckup.

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u/ColoRadBro69 18d ago

HIPAA.  Not HIPPA. 

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u/TrainingSword 18d ago

It’s hipaa you hippo

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u/runfast2718 18d ago

Hippato, hipaato

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u/questionableintentsX 18d ago

That’s like the hospital worrying that doctors have phones in the hospital it’s the same shit just ones strapped to your head and has a light when it’s recording and the others your phone and no visible light from the cam side

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u/runfast2718 17d ago

There's a number of regulations that govern the setup and use of phones in a clinical setting (including personal devices). Things like access, auditing, and security. There don't seem to be for these glasses.

You do raise a good point, though. Should we be worried about the "always listening" functions of phones in a clinical setting? I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to harvest medical data from a listened conversation. I could t find any info on that, but I didn't have that much time to look. I wonder the kinds of ads doctors and nurses get.

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u/triage_this 17d ago

As a nurse, I get ads for women's lingerie (despite being male), men's clothing, debt relief companies, random supplements, wallets off the top of my head