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Buried In the Healthcare.gov Source: "No Expectation of Privacy"

Posted by timothy on from the just-initial-here-and-here-and-here-and-here dept.

realized writes "The Obamacare website Healthcare.gov has a hidden terms of service that is not shown to people when they sign up. The hidden terms, only viewable if you 'view source' on the site, says that the user has 'no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system.' Sadly, the taxpayer-funded website still does not work for most people, so it's hard to confirm – though when it's fixed in two months, we should finally be able to see it." Note: As the article points out, that phrasing is "not visible to users and obviously not intended as part of the terms and conditions." So users shouldn't worry that they've actually, accidentally agreed to any terms more onerous than the ones they can read on the signup page, but it's an interesting inclusion. What's the last EULA you read thoroughly?

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  1. How do we get Congress to sign up? by WillAdams · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I want legislation limiting their healthcare and other benefits to those which are available to the general public.

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    1. Re:How do we get Congress to sign up? by mjr167 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not only that, vote against anyone with a R or D by their name

    2. Re:How do we get Congress to sign up? by Dishevel · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Obama did not write it. He has no idea what is in it.

      Congress had to pass it before they could figure out what it meant. This was written by lobbyists and bureaucrats each piece designed to make money for some individual company with no regard to what it means on the whole.

      Every congress critter that votes on any piece of legislation that they do not understand should be thrown of of their position. After they are raped and killed. Any law that can not be understood by someone without a law degree in 20 minutes should be null and void. Complicated laws are always wrong.

      And fuck every piece of shit that has said "Their ought to be a law" in the last 50 years.

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    3. Re:How do we get Congress to sign up? by LordLimecat · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Obama signed it. Its his constitutional responsibility to know whats in it.

      Sorry, Im not buying that he rallied for it and signed it but had no idea what was in it.

  2. let me translate that by slashmydots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "no reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data transiting or stored on this information system" translated into HIPAA means "lol this website is completely illegal."