alt.hn

7/22/2026 at 7:15:21 PM

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data

by Jimmc414

7/22/2026 at 7:54:05 PM

The government's stated remediation for the Palantir transfer was that the data had been shared over a Microsoft Teams chat and was deleted from the chat. That is not a deletion.

According to CMS's security program documentation, Medicare and Medicaid are a covered entities under HIPAA, subject to 60 day notice to affected individuals, reporting to HHS OCR, and notice to media outlets when a breach affects more than 500 residents of a state.

Not to mention this violated a standing court order.

https://security.cms.gov/learn/cms-breach-response-handbook

by Jimmc414

7/22/2026 at 8:44:04 PM

Why is evolution not eliminating stupidity and malice from human genes?

Why are people in power usually the stupidest and/or most malicious?

Ugh! No wonder why some people think about suicide with stupid shit like this happening all the time all around us.

I’m going to go eat ice cream to calm my temper and forget that stupid people control most aspects of my life.

by guessmyname

7/22/2026 at 8:40:04 PM

I'm sure they did, and a lot more besides. So what? What is anyone going to do about it? Congress certainly doesn't give a fig.

by SirFatty

7/22/2026 at 7:39:19 PM

HIPPA privacy laws are rarely enforced against corporations and government. These laws are meant to suppress whoever they want to. It's baffling how they continue to get away with this until you realize that the United States is a banana republic.

by kittikitti

7/22/2026 at 8:31:26 PM

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by TMWNN

7/22/2026 at 8:38:09 PM

Well, illegal aliens should not be in the country at all if you want to get down to the basics of it.

by SoftTalker

7/22/2026 at 8:52:30 PM

Well, yes.

That they should not does not override the need for the government to obey the law. But that also does not mean that the fundamental incoherence of a news article ignoring the issue of illegal aliens having access to government aid–of inherently assuming that "of course they should, bigot"—should be ignored.

by TMWNN