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  "path": "/t/how-do-i-compellingly-advocate-for-my-privacy-with-doctors-and-other-healthcare-professionals/38299#post_13",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-03T17:33:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "PurpleDime:\n\n> **IS PUNISHMENT THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE THEM CARE?**\n>\n> It would seem that punishment is the only way to compel healthcare practitioners to do the right thing, and that’s only if data protection agencies actually care to reprimand them.\n>\n> Although I could be wrong, I strongly suspect that if data protection agencies realize that many healthcare practitioners use Gmail and WhatsApp to handle patient data, they won’t be willing to severely fine them. My guess is, at best, they would offer them an opportunity to correct the matter, which could also take too long.\n\nThere’s your key mistaken assumption: that using Gmail or WhatsApp would automatically give a data protection agency cause to act.\n\n“I don’t like Google or Facebook” is not a bullet point in privacy law. A patient can object, ask for another communication method, complain to a regulator, or go elsewhere. But that is different from showing the clinic is doing something unlawful.\n\nI also think it’s worth being realistic about leverage here. You can control what channels you personally agree to use. You cannot force a clinic to redesign its systems just because you dislike the vendors involved.",
  "title": "How do I compellingly advocate for my privacy with doctors and other healthcare professionals?"
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