So much for privacy, wonder if California is doing this, probably not with our current economic standing. It also makes you wonder if other states are doing the same. In every state all over your medication records are sold for profit, so now this? If you see below the records can help insurance companies underwrite and determine premiums based on what medications you are taking and this is geared heavily towards employers offering benefits in this area.
Health Insurance Underwriting Practices With Prescription Data – How Does This Work
Does the word privacy really exist one starts to wonder. In the article, why do the government employees get to be exempt here, good question posed. BD
Ingenix already shows profits over a billion every year for it’s division of United Healthcare, so this looks to be more analytical data to increase those levels. Again, we are over run with analytics to the point to where in short time there will be additional protests and potential riots.
Over the past five years, the state of Oklahoma has raised more than $65 million by selling its citizens' personal information including names, birth dates, driver's-license numbers, and more. As further proof of a rotten situation run amok, the state's now trying to shield public-sector workers from those same privacy-trampling practices to which private-sector citizens are subject.
From an article in NewsOK.com:
While the state earns money selling records that include birth dates, lawmakers and some labor groups are working to shut off access to birth dates of public employees to the public, The Oklahoman and others working on the public’s behalf. Senate Bill 1753, by Sen. Debbe Leftwich, D-Oklahoma City, and Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, would exempt government worker birth dates from the state’s Open Records Act.
Leftwich, Terrill and supporters of the bill claim releasing birth dates could endanger the safety of employees and lead to identity theft. They have provided no evidence of such harm being done in the past as a result of birth dates being public.
Oklahoma Sells Citizens' Data And Makes Millions - Global CIO Blog - InformationWeek
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