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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (13 children)

I'm not saying that won't happen but if it does Microsoft will be absolutely fucked as they got caught committing several million HIPAA violations, not to mention any exposure to classified material on government computers.

[–] realbadat 18 points 6 months ago (9 children)

My only thought there is "LOL"

Export violations (sanctioned countries)
Illegally collected personal information from children
Price fixing
Wage theft
Discrimination
Privacy violations
Mismanaging peoples 401ks

There are long, long, loooooong lists of violations MS has been caught for. The penalty has always been a fine small enough that it's a cost of doing business.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You should read up on penalties for HIPAA violations, they don’t fuck around.

[–] realbadat 12 points 6 months ago

I'm aware of them.

Let's look at some of the most historic:

NY Presbyterian Hospital - with no real efforts on their end to prevent the violation of thousands of records, they got a whopping fine of.... Under $5 million.
AHC - lack of risk analysis, failures in procedures and policies, etc - Just over $5 million.
Data breaches - usually around $4-5mil, the worst case being Anthem, about 80 million people effected - $16 million in fines. A record.

Criminal offenses? Yeah, plenty of those - with individuals, usually related to that information then being used for other purposes (scams, theft, etc).

But a company like Microsoft, you're going to have a hard time convincing me it's going to ruin the company. The history of HIPAA violations and their fines tell a very different story.

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