Customers are not bound by HIPAA, no. Random people aren't, only like medical professionals and people that as part of their job duties handle that information.
I could recite someone's medical history from a soapbox in a public place, but since I'm not bound by HIPAA, it is not a HIPAA infraction.
I have an honest theory, it's probably verifiable by someone smarter than me.
I think attitudes about this stuff are influenced top down by agenda - I think they're influenced top down by religion, and government, I think they get looser and more strict by agenda.
I think when governments, religions, or theocracies are trying to bolster the amount of human capital they have, you see a slow loosening and normalization, more people seeing younger humans as more adult like to justify the position.
So too, when things are comfortable in an economy, you see childhood extended, creature comforts expanded, more luxury in a society, and consequently agendas moving towards lower birth rates and values that align with that ( higher education etc )
There is a type of generational moral elasticity to this, and I'm seeing it loosen worldwide, like this, for probably the exact reason it sounds - more desperate bodies for military and economics, boosting population for replacement.
I also think this is why countries are moving against LGBT rights, and specifically against transgender people, because hormone therapy sterilizes a non trivial amount of transgender people, reducing the 'breeding stock'.
It's actually well known that there are more trans men than trans women, that is, that more biological female transitioners than male born transitioners, but they get almost no media coverage because they're not considered a threat to society in the ways they are trying to weapons the threat, but legislation covers them too, and of course intentionally.
I'm dead serious when I say this type of view goes hand in hand with anti LGBT and anti intellectualism if your goal is to nudge your people into having more babies with less opportunities. This is coming to the US and the West too, it's already on its way.
I am deeply empathetic, but I pretty much experience zero embarrassment, regret, guilt, and very very little anger.
I experience a ton of sorrow though, and love, it feels like I love everyone. I know something is really weird with the way I experience emotions - I have wildly overactive empathy for emotions in others, but yeah, it's like I don't quite have a soul or something.
This is super twisted and infantalizing to women to be honest. We don't fight for equality by using equity logic that is faulty, we ask everyone, men and women to see women as equals in all areas of life. We're strong, resilient, capable and independent, and you're philosophy asks to maintain privilege ( not military draft ) because you think we face so much other issues, that you see that as equitable, but equity is often the incorrect solution to fairness, fairness is often blind, it says anything a man can do, women can do too. I want to be seen as an equal, not weaker. Women should be in positions of power, not protected and privileged, we are just as capable.
So can men, but in this instance they're also compelled. The ask here is that if men are compelled to service, women should be too. That's obviously equal treatment and fair.
Customers are not bound by HIPAA, no. Random people aren't, only like medical professionals and people that as part of their job duties handle that information.
I could recite someone's medical history from a soapbox in a public place, but since I'm not bound by HIPAA, it is not a HIPAA infraction.