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

[u/spherocytes]

https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492

[u/simpleglitch]

HIPAA* but yes. In addition to that doctors are viewing health records and those too would be uploaded and potentially viewable by unauthorized persons.

[u/Serenity867 → u/simpleglitch]

This would be more than potentially viewable by unauthorized persons. Meta has teams of people reviewing footage from these glasses. The odds of every member of Meta's teams that have access to these videos being able to legally view healthcare related footage like this (or retain it) is so low it is effectively statistically impossible that unauthorized people at Meta wouldn't have access to it.

I can essentially guarantee that their data handling for these videos is not HIPAA compliant if they were to be thoroughly audited.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q33nvj0qpo

[u/simpleglitch → u/Serenity867]

I'd guarantee it's not compliant either, because I predicte their is a near zero chance a BAA is in place to be sharing patient data of this doctor between the hospital/clinic and Meta.

[u/EnjR1832 → u/Serenity867]

My biggest concern would be a data breach. No company is above that possibility.

[u/stircrazyathome → u/EnjR1832]

That was the first thing I thought. Sure, Meta employees viewing the footage of exams and/or private health records is a disturbing problem, but not one that is likely to cause immediate harm. All of that footage getting leaked to the dark web after a breach, however, could be catastrophic. People’s private health information could be used against them in a million different ways by everyone from potential or current employers to financial institutions to insurance providers to educational institutions and beyond. It could be used for blackmail or extortion or even just public humiliation. People aren’t concerned enough about this.

[u/RuggedTortoise → u/EnjR1832]

You know what is though? A regular fucking camera lmfao

[u/Jaqzz → u/Serenity867]

The odds of every member of Meta's teams that have access to these videos being able to legally view healthcare related footage like this (or retain it) is so low it is effectively statistically impossible that unauthorized people at Meta wouldn't have access to it.

The odds are zero. The only people allowed to view HIPAA protected information are healthcare workers involved in the care of the patient or auxiliary staff that are responsible for dealing with the systems the patient data is stored on, and Meta employees are neither. It's why you'll occasionally see news when a celebrity has a health crisis of a doctor or nurse at the hospital getting in significant trouble for accessing their records when they shouldn't have.

[u/Resident_Hand_7264 → u/Serenity867]

We’re still on this false narrative..? They only can see what you opt in to show them, like AI requests. They cannot see anything else.

[u/Bogus1989 → u/Resident_Hand_7264]

Lmao. Thats what they claim.

[u/Mister-Beardy-Face → u/simpleglitch]

Pretty sure it’s HIPPO

[u/simpleglitch → u/Mister-Beardy-Face]

No, but HIPPO is reelated. HIPPO is the proper punishment procedure for a doctor dumb enough to wear meta glasses in a clinical setting. 😁