HIPPA exists and has a lot of teeth. Given this extensive liability, I trust that if anything does go wrong they will be punished. Recordings might dramatically improve patient outcomes, and so I will let them
Until you need insurance. Or a professional license that involves a review of your medical record. Or the government just wants the data. Or the records are subpoenaed to be used against you in court. You are trusting that illegitimate uses of this data will be punished. However, there are many authorized uses that will hurt you in the long term. It is rarely to your advantage to accumulate extensive recorded medical records.
Even pre-existing insurance denials could return in the US.
Don't let systems record what they don't need. They aren't your friend.
HIPAA enforces nothing other than a pinky-swear-promise of compliance. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of middlemen who sell SaaS like this to medical professionals. If one suffers a breach then shuts down, your doctor will just switch to the next one in line with no consequences because "they promised they were compliant". Meanwhile all your medical details will end up in a public dataset forevermore.
What would be the model of a country with stronger net neutrality laws? I think EU regulations are now a touch stronger than UK regulations due to post-Brexit divergence, but by world standards, the UK has strong net neutrality protections.
In this case nobody is forcing them to buy a dodgers ticket. It’s a completely optional and absurdly expensive luxury good that is purely for leisure. They can simply not but a ticket if they don't want to accept conditions of sale.
Yeah... I mean, who says I should have to put in wheelchair ramps for my ballpark that seats tens of thousands? I mean, so few people use/need them, I should just be able to refuse service to those people. Right?
So, you want to force people to give money to specific, monopolistic, corporations? Why would I want a smart phone if I'm blind... how am I expected to use a smart phone when I am blind, exactly?
Because quality of life doesn't have a value in of itself. Especially for the elderly, they should be excluded from enjoying the end of their life simply because no wants to think of a solution to the problem that doesn't require them to introduce massive amounts of risk into their life which, also, negatively impacts their quality of life.
Those people can work for their income then; the policy I was discussing only relates to the government paying parents an income, ideally on a per-child basis (up to some maximum, maybe four; you need to have some people having bigger families to balance out the ones who don't have any children at all, but you also don't want people farming kids for money).
That's not how this works. The JWST was limited by the size of its faring, but increasing the size of the faring doesn't mean they'd ship a less complex telescope with the same functionality; they'd ship an equally-complex telescope with more functionality. Better for science, yes, but that doesn't translate to more expenditure that could be captured by the launch company. And that still relies on a government that gives a damn about funding science, which is not not the direction that the US is heading in.
> that doesn't translate to more expenditure that could be captured by the launch company.
Of course it does. With Starship, SpaceX could've charged NASA/ESA more to launch a bigger JWST than the cost to launch with Ariane 5, with huge profit margins.
On top of that, with a much larger fairing, you could almost certainly simplify the telescope and increase capability. A significant part of the JWST's complexity is the unfolding sequence, which could be simplified with a fairing that is more than double (triple? quadruple?) the volume.
If you the read article, you would see it explains that what they release are not microplastics. They are instead a soap used to get them to unstick from their mold in production.
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