Released: May 01, 2023

To become an Amazon Clinic patient, you sign away some privacy

Source: Geoffrey Fowler, Washington Post (Paid Registration)

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.

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.

Amazon's form is asking for something more extraordinary: “use and disclosure of protected health information.” It authorizes Amazon to have your “complete patient file,” and notes that the information “may be re-disclosed” after which it “will no longer be protected by HIPAA", the health-privacy law.

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