RIP HIPAA: Now Everyone Knows What's Wrong With You, Including Your Boss

Stupid Sexy Privacy

Over the next three episodes (17, 18, and 19), we'll let our medical and privacy experts take center stage, so all of the tips in these three episodes will be super short.

This week, BJ (with Rosie's assistance) interviewed Dr. Arthur Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University. Dr. Caplan is also the founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

BJ's audio got jacked up, so Rosie re-recorded BJ's questions. Wasn't that nice of her?

This discussion with Dr. Caplan is super important to listen to. That's because it sets the stage for our following interview with Brittan Heller, Senior Fellow of Democracy and Technology at The Atlantic Council, and Jen Caltrider from the Mozilla Foundation's Privacy Not Included initiative.

All three of these interviews build off each other.

Dr. Caplan explains how HIPPA is useless and doesn't protect you at all from the misuse of your health data by Big Tech.

Brittan and BJ talk about how head-mounted displays used in AR and VR devices can be used to tell if you have Autism (as one example).

And Jen talks to BJ's co-author, Amanda King, about the current state of pregnancy trackers, the device they collect, and who that information is being shared with.

So, pretty important stuff. We hope you give these three episodes a listen.

And don't worry.

Rosie and BJ will be back with more tips and jokes in Episode 20!

Resources Mentioned In Today’s Show:

-Set up a Google Alert for your name and any prominent usernames you use here.

-If you are being stalked and harassed online, Hunchly can help you collect evidence of the harassment. You can use the information gathered by Hunchly to create an Incident Tracking Chart, which will help you and your attorneys strike back at harassers.

-Page Vault is a more advanced program that offers similar features to Hunchly, but with one key difference: Information saved into Page Vault is admissible in a court of law. The downside? Page Vault is REALLY expensive.

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And before we go ...

BJ and Amanda are recording a two-hour video course that you can purchase based on this podcast and their upcoming book, "How to Protect Yourself From Fascists and Weirdos."

The course will include every step from our privacy audits and examples of how to put those steps into practice.

If you'd like to know when the course is available, email BJ at [e-mail] with Privacy Course in the subject line.