That just doesn’t work, as we can see. You have to do due diligence, something to assure yourself that the people you’re giving your data to can be trusted.

Bryan Cline, a vice president with the Health Information Trust Alliance, an organization that helps hospitals and clinics set privacy guidelines. HTA estimates that some twenty percent of privacy breaches involve third parties, usually contractors, accounting for more than fifty percent of inadvertently disclosed confidential data.