Federal prosecutors have dropped the case against a Texas doctor who called himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors and was accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients who weren’t under his care.

The dismissal of the case against Dr. Eithan Haim in U.S. district court in Houston comes as the Trump administration in its first week has already issued executive orders rolling back transgender rights.

Prosecutors had said that Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, took the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent to cause malicious harm” to Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, one of the nation’s largest pediatric hospitals.

Haim works in the Dallas area but had previously worked at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment alleged that Haim asked to reactivate his login there and in 2023 began accessing information on pediatric patients not under his care and then turned it over to a media contact.

  • Flying Squid
    7•3 months ago

    An AI can be hacked. An IT person working for the AI company doesn’t even need to hack it.

    Doctors can keep secrets.

    And you and others still haven’t accepted that they do not care about the law. I mean this story alone should prove that to you.

    • @Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      See…if " the AI company" has access to the data, instead of the hospital using a local implementation of said AI, they’ve already failed according to Hipaa

      • Flying Squid
        1•3 months ago

        Once again- they do not care about the law.

        Why is that not obvious to you yet?

        • @Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          And you already acting like they can ignore it without a care IS WHAT ALLOWS THEM TO GET AWAY WITH IT.

          Stop enabling fascists, please.

          • Flying Squid
            1•3 months ago

            What are you even talking about? Who do you think I am? What power do you think I have?

            • @Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
              1•3 months ago

              I think you’re a member of the public. And when the public cedes power to despots, they take it willingly.

              • Flying Squid
                1•3 months ago

                What exactly do you expect me to do about all of the laws Trump has already violated in the past week? Tell me in specific what I am supposed to do about it.

                • @Bronzebeard@lemm.eeEnglish
                  0•3 months ago

                  Your can stop acting like it’s all a forgive conclusion for starters. You’re literally assisting with the normalization. Fucking stop it

                  • Flying Squid
                    0•3 months ago

                    You think if I personally stop talking about him breaking the law, he’ll stop breaking the law? Really? You really think that?