A constant stream of boobs.
In every sense.
Dutch health insurers are reportedly forcing breast cancer patients to submit photos of their breasts prior to reconstructive surgery despite a government ban on precisely that. That sounds pretty bad but it gets worse: These insurers keep losing their copies of these highly intimate pictures, one way or another. Some …
So... when will the, umm, vigorous action, involving torches, pitchforks, cutlasses, and nooses, going to take place? Personally, I'd string whoever is responsible for this up by his balls and prod his buttocks with a pitchfork a few times, but I have a bad attitude. Oh, and take pix. Lots of pix. And pass them to another counter. Or two. Or three.
This is a combination of fraud and power-harrassment -- it can't just be about looking at boobs, as you can see as many as you want for free on the Internet.
I'm surprised there hasn't been a series of back-alley beat-downs, house-, and boat-burnings of relevant boards-of-directors.
From TFA: Some hospitals have since refused to do this, citing the sensitive nature of the images and potential privacy nightmares. That sounds as though those hospitals' directors know they can't keep their patients' info secure.
OK, death sentence it is then.
Joking aside: if the CEOs aren't going to prison for this, then at the very least the companies need to receive fines so punitive that it bankrupts them. The only way they'll ever stop is if they cannot make money from what they're doing.
In the main, computer security isn't about bad code (though bad code surely is involved). It's about bad procedures and priorities, and about human nature.
The greatest firewall in the world becomes not-the-greatest, if it ships with poorly-chosen defaults, because human nature and bad priorities means bosses will tell their tech-minions to "Just get it up and running A.S.A.P. -- we don't have time for anything else."
There should be serious consequences for those responsible. Dutch health insures have become complete control freaks, requiring huge written reports and intervention plans for even the simplest medical procedure (like for the physiotherapy needed for a sprained ankle (I kid you not)), ostensibly to ensure money isn't wasted, but in practice it drives costs up and increasing delays. This is just one of the worst excesses of this system.
"Very annoying" - can't believe that's what they actually said.
Doing a bit of reverse-reverse-translation gets me to "heel vervelend"; which while literally meaning annoying, irritating, exasperating, generally has a somewhat more sympathetic interpretation in Dutch.
"I have a cold." "Ach, wat vervelend." Meaning: "Oh, that sucks/sorry to hear that."
> forcing breast cancer patients to submit photos of their breasts
What does that prove?? How does the company know the photo is of MY(*) breast? As said, there's lots of breasts online. Many very impressive but also surely some disappointments. Also I remember Chinese-language newspapers advertising breast operations with explicit before-and-after photos: submit a before-photo. ---Hey! "breast reconstruction" in an UN-safe search browser turns up appropriate images (obviously).
Nobody wants pictures of my man-parts, my gall-bladder. The hospital THREW OUT pictures of my appendix (that was an impressive scar).
(*) Yes, male-type people get breast diseases and sometimes reconstruction.