IRS sued for seizing 60 million medical records

[ElNono]

A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans.

The name of the provider is not yet known, United Press International said. But Courthouse News Service said the suit claims the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for financial data on one employee – and that led to the seizure of information on 10 million, including state judges.

The search warrant did not specify that the IRS could take medical information, UPI said.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/17/irs-sued-seizing-60-million-medical-records/

[ElNono]

Same

When the agents finished their raid, Barnes said they then used the John Doe Company facilities to relax, eat and watch sports on television. “Adding insult to injury, after unlawfully seizing the records and searching their intimate parts, defendants decided to use John Doe Company's media system to watch basketball, ordering pizza and Coca-Cola, to take in part of the NCAA tournament, illustrating their complete disregard of the court's order and the Plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights,” the suit said.

http://www.nextgov.com/health/2013/05/lawsuit-says-irs-illegally-seized-60-million-health-records/63179/

[TeyshaBlue]

Some odd aspects about this case.

2 years to get to court?

Lying around eating pizza and watching basketball after the raid? I'm sending them my resume.

It sound like the agents did not have a plan to parse the data, but panicked and seized "everything" under the threat of deletion or modification. I don't know how seizure of electronic records work, but insurance and employee medical related records are totally and completely siloed at my company. I think you'd pretty much have to be trying to get them to do so.

[Wild Cobra]

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