Is the Obamacare Website
Secretly Violating your Privacy Rights?
by Onan Coca / 23 April 2014
There are
plenty of reasons to not like Obamacare. There are plenty of reasons to be
dubious of the federal government when it comes to obeying our laws. If you put
the two of those things together, there is a lot of reason for us to be worried
about what Obamacare will do to our privacy. Imagine a government clearinghouse
that gives outside groups (insurance companies) unfettered access to all of our
private information. It’s a terrifying thought.
“This is the part of the signup that is hidden," said Rep. Joe
Barton (R-TX). "The applicant does not see this, but it is in the
source code, and what that blue highlighted area that’s been circled in red
says is: ‘You have no
reasonable expectation of privacy regarding any communication or data
transmitting or stored on this information system."
The confluence of the NSA
scandal with the IRS scandal and Obamacare’s implementation should just be too
much for us as a nation. Even Democrats have to be realizing that the
government cannot be trusted with sensitive and private information.
The problem is really
multi-faceted.
The first issue
is that our government has proved to be corrupt. Certain segments of the
bureaucracy can be bought and encouraged to commit crimes against certain
segments of the population. Example?
The IRS scandal. The IRS targeted conservative groups using their private
information against them. The IRS went even further and had contacts at the FEC
and the FBI provide other private information that could be used against
conservative non-profits. The IRS malfeasance runs so deep that it has caught
up even a respected ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government
Reform Committee – Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), who is now being investigated for having part in the IRS scandal
and its cover-up.
The other
scandals plaguing our government only add to this breach of trust. The DOJ
scandals, the NSA scandal, the White House’s misuse of Census Data and other
issues all contribute evidence to the idea that the government cannot and
should not be trusted.
The second issue has to
do with typical government
incompetence. While the federal
government should have access to the most advanced technology our world has to
offer… the incompetence of the bureaucracy often gets in the way. The
government has poured hundreds of millions of dollars and years of work into a
web portal that even a fly-by-night company could have put up for a few
thousand dollars in just a few days. And the cheaper, less time consuming
website would have been better!
But because of government incompetence the website
has been a disaster and millions of people have opened themselves up to fraud
and theft by trusting it. Our privacy, our personal information, our credit
ratings and bank accounts -- even our good name -- are all too important to
just hand over to people who are too corrupt or too incompetent to be trusted. Obamacare is dangerous for many reasons… our privacy is
just another great reason to end Obamacare.
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