Authors

Alex Lemberg, Golden Gate University School of Law

Article Title

Hackers Made Me Lose My Job!: Health Data Privacy and Its Potentially Devastating Effect on the LGBTQ Population

Abstract

This Comment shows that because of an increasing rate and severity of data breaches, insufficient legal recourse for affected individuals, and lack of incentives for healthcare companies to strengthen their data security systems, leaked healthcare data will cause the substantive due process right of privacy of LGBTQ individuals to be disenfranchised. Because sexual orientation and gender identity are unprotected by heightened scrutiny under federal due process and equal protection jurisprudence, additional protections must be created for LGBTQ people. These protections should include a new legal right in tort under the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), increase incentives for protecting electronic health data, and increase budget to fund enforcement and compliance activities.

Recommended Citation

Alex Lemberg, Hackers Made Me Lose My Job!: Health Data Privacy and Its Potentially Devastating Effect on the LGBTQ Population, 47 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 175 (2017).
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol47/iss2/10