Electronic Medical Records Offer a Privacy Playbook for Policing Tech

scottleibrand · x · 2026-09-11

John Arnold argues early EMR privacy failures — hospital staff snooping on celebrities and exes in the 2000s — were fixed not by scrapping the tech but with audit trails, tighter access controls, tougher federal penalties, and changed norms. The same playbook, he says, should govern police use of LPRs and cameras: restrict access by default, as most departments already do.

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