[dymk]

That’s a big hipaa violation.

[mc32]

No, but it's probably a HIPAA violation.

[kevinmchugh]

They also probably have a pretty good model of what weight loss looks like absent semaglutide. The semaglutide patients probably have a different set of purchasing behaviors from dieters and LAP band surgery patients.

[whycome]

Not if just looking at correlation.

[dymk]

Incorrect

[voisin]

You can’t anonymize the data first?

[dymk]

Nope, it’s not like A/B testing a button color on an ad; it’s medical history

[NerdiDotOrg]

You can anonymize data. If it's not able to identify the real person, it's allowed.

[dymk]

Data which can be tied back to someone's purchase history is by definition not anonymized

[alistairSH]

It’s HIPAA.