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Comment by mdp2021

15 hours ago

> where I'm opposed to talking to my doctor because the information may be digitally recorded and leaked

Let me say "Hi mate, +1". State doctors? There are territories in which a pharmacological prescription is shared DB only now (where previously they could be on paper - a secret between you, the pen, the paper, the pharmacist and the gods). Private entities? Good luck finding one that does not require a privacy waiver as a condition for the visit. Searching for a medical dock (a dock for a doc), calling them to ask? "This is a recorded message. If you proceed with the call then you agree..." (Hang-up click).

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astura  13 hours ago

>previously they could be on paper - a secret between you, the pen, the paper, the pharmacist and the gods

Excuse me?

If you weren't paying with cash whoever paid for the prescription (govt, insurance) has a record of it. The pharmacy that filled the prescription has a record of it as well as the doctor who wrote it.

  • mdp2021  13 hours ago

    > cash

    How can you presume we do not pay with cash?! How can you remotely suppose one sane mind would not use cash for all sensitive private transactions - books, medicines, preferential (profiling) products etc.?

    We use cash in general because nobody in Dignity would accept their own daily matters to be recorded and given to multiple untrusted parties¹, not to mention potentially retrievable by even more untrusted parties - of course the matter is much more evident for all transactions over confidential items!

    (¹EU here: 12 public-hybrid-private DBs as per the PSD2 legislation.)