US Justice Department drops case against Texas doctor charged with leaking transgender care data
US Justice Department drops case against Texas doctor charged with leaking transgender care data
Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care.
The dismissal of the case against Dr. Eithan Haim in U.S. district court in Houston comes as the Trump administration in its first week has already issued executive orders rolling back transgender rights.
Prosecutors had said that Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, took the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals.
Haim works in the Dallas area but had previously worked at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment alleged that Haim asked to reactivate his login there and in 2023 began accessing information on pediatric patients not under his care and then turned it over to a media contact.
If the patients hadn't been transgender, this would not have been dropped. It is illegal to share that data no matter what...
Oh you missed the news about congress wanting to insert AI into the medical system, including diagnosis and dispensing medicine.
An AI does not have any sort of doctor-patient confidentiality.
So it won't just be trans people, it will be anyone who's health issues make them undesirable in the eyes of the government. For example, people who turn out to be part of a group genetically even if they don't look like it.
Not just that, if you did something illegal at time X, it doesn't matter if it's made legal later on, at the time what you did was a crime.
Brownshirts in every facet of life. Fucking fascists.
When charges are dropped like this, can someone else take them up and attempt to prosecute him? Sharing information like this is clearly illegal.
Which means that this is the new norm.
Only gonna get worse
I somehow didn't really notice before, so many people were holding back their deep hatred for anything diverging from the "norm".
They all dropped their masks, even before Trump took over.
My daughter and I are now in the UK with the intent to stay, and in just the few days I've been here it's amazing to see how little people give a shit about conforming to any one look like Americans are. The diversity here of just the types of clothing people wear alone is so refreshing to see. Sure, there are stuffy upper-class people wearing suits all day, but there are also guys in African Dashikis and women who would not look out of place in any Middle Eastern country (I'm not a fan of the whole veil thing, but it's still different). You don't see this stuff in the U.S. outside of major cities, and not even close to as much there, and the city I am in right now is far from a major one. It's a little hard to explain unless you see it yourself, but just walking a couple of blocks to the local mall and it looks and sounds like you're in an international airport in terms of the people around you.
People think the U.S. has diversity, but just being here a week shows me the difference in terms of what we think of as diversity and diversity in other places. Sure, the UK has its problems with bigotry too, but it still feels so different.
Sure would be a shame if someone leaked his info.
Very unfortunate if Luigi got a hold of it.
The indictment alleged that Haim asked to reactivate his login there and in 2023 began accessing information on pediatric patients not under his care and then turned it over to a media contact.
And here’s a reminder that HIPAA exists in large part due to doctors/nurses basically blackmailing politicians and celebrities. If a senator showed up in a doctor’s office with the clap, medical staff would threaten to sell that info (basically saying they were having an affair or got cheated on) to the tabloids unless the politician paid up. Or even worse, if they were diagnosed with HIV, the medical staff would out them as gay.
Hopefully the patients can at least sue the guy.
That should be a criminal case of unauthorized access, before you even get to the hipaa violation
This is fucked up on so many levels.. where to begin.. More now than ever, privacy is a human right
Sounds like a target for princess peach
Princess Peach?