You agreed to what? The “HIPAA authorization” for Amazon’s new low-cost clinic offers the tech giant more control over your health data.
Amazon has a new low-price health service called Amazon Clinic. For as little as $30, you can message online with a clinician from an Amazon partner who will write you a prescription for anything from covid-19 to herpes.But there’s a hidden cost to Amazon’s Clinic: your privacy. This is how Big Tech companies get away with invading your intimate business — and the laws that are supposed to protect us just aren’t keeping up.
Wait, you agreed to what? Amazon is essentially pushing people to waive some of their federal privacy protections, say the lawyers at thewhom I asked to inspect the jargon. Amazon is required by law to say doing so is voluntary — but in practice you must agree to become a patient at its Clinic. There’s only one button to click: “Continue.”
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, but I review all technology with the same critical eye.Amazon is pushing deeper into health care before it has earned our trust as a steward of very sensitive data, and these shenanigans don’t help. Last year, Amazon also bought. I wonder: When it will start asking One Medical patients like me to authorize new uses of our health data, too?
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