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  "path": "/t/how-do-i-compellingly-advocate-for-my-privacy-with-doctors-and-other-healthcare-professionals/38299#post_12",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-03T16:57:41.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Thanks. This is useful, but I don’t think it would be enough. If they’ve never experienced any issues with using Gmail and WhatsApp, and don’t know anyone in healthcare who has either, I don’t think they would be motivated.\n\nThe reality is this. When it comes to consent, you shouldn’t have to explain yourself. If you don’t want to have sex, you don’t need to give an explanation. It should be the same with privacy. However, because of the current privacy-invasive status quo and the fact that most people do not say no, I will have to justify myself.\n\nI will contact my local data protection authority, but I don’t think it will make much of a difference.\n\nanonymous615:\n\n> PurpleDime:\n>\n>> **1) Would it be insensitive for me to use this example with the knowledge that both my doctor and her receptionist are Jewish?**\n>\n> yes.\n\nThank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it.\n\n**Would it make a difference if I were Jewish?**\n\nI personally don’t think I should have to disclose my background to make people relate to me more, because I am not of the belief that just because you have something in common with someone, you will bond over it.\n\nAlso, when Carissa Véliz used this example, she didn’t know if her audience was Jewish or not. However, statistically, some of them must have been. If I knew my doctor was not Jewish, I would still want to use this example, because to me, it’s a compelling one regardless of who you are talking to. This means that if I didn’t know anything about my doctor’s background, I would use this example, with the understanding that they might be Jewish.\n\nI’m only having reservations because I know for a fact that my doctor is Jewish.\n\nBumbashirovich:\n\n> It’s better to keep quiet in such situations. You might be misunderstood and referred to a psychiatrist.\n\nI don’t understand why you’re saying that.\n\n**Why should I stay silent and not advocate for myself?**\n**Why should I comply with surveillance capitalism?**\n\nanonymous626:\n\n> But if they ask me about, for example, our environmental ethics, I would be clueless even though our workplace does have environmental practices in place.\n\nI hear you, but I would imagine that healthcare workers, as well as people who work in law (lawyers, paralegals, admins at law firms, etc.), would have had some training when it comes to confidentiality, even before the internet came along and definitely after.\n\nAnd these are the professions where confidentiality is super important. But even outside those professions, because the internet is so ubiquitous, privacy is something every company has had to have in mind. There were privacy laws before the internet, after all.",
  "title": "How do I compellingly advocate for my privacy with doctors and other healthcare professionals?"
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