There’s a mistake commonly made in the United States that a law that was passed to help people move their healthcare information to a new doctor or provider was actually passed to originally implement universal, wide-ranging privacy controls on that same type of information. This is the mixup with HIPAA—the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act—and while the mixup can be harmless most of the time, it can also show up in misunderstandings of other privacy concepts around the world.

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