{"id":"112079059323905912","created_at":"2024-03-11T20:58:44.700Z","in_reply_to_id":null,"in_reply_to_account_id":null,"sensitive":false,"spoiler_text":"","visibility":"public","language":"en","uri":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick/statuses/112079059323905912","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/112079059323905912","replies_count":108,"reblogs_count":1668,"favourites_count":1166,"quotes_count":0,"edited_at":"2024-03-12T16:16:42.799Z","content":"<p>It&#39;s official. After 3 months of back and forth, a major medical provider has elected to drop me as a patient for not having a Google or Apple device. </p><p>It is unclear if this is legal, but it is very clearly discriminatory and unethical.</p><p>Any tech journalists or lawyers interested in this? </p><p>I would like to do anything I can to ensure this never happens to anyone else.</p>","reblog":null,"application":{"name":"Web","website":null},"account":{"id":"929154","username":"lrvick","acct":"lrvick","display_name":"Lance R. Vick","locked":false,"bot":false,"discoverable":true,"indexable":false,"group":false,"created_at":"2019-10-06T00:00:00.000Z","note":"<p>FOSS || GTFO</p><p>* Security Engineer<br />* Cypherpunk<br />* Founder of #! (hashbang.sh), stagex.tools<br />* Co-founder of Distrust.co, Caution.co<br />* Church Of Cryptography Priest</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/security\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>security</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/foss\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/sysadmin\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>sysadmin</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/cryptoanarchy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>cryptoanarchy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/cypherpunk\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>cypherpunk</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/embedded\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>embedded</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/puzzles\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>puzzles</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/locksport\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>locksport</span></a>  <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/programming\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/linux\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/homelab\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>homelab</span></a></p>","url":"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick","uri":"https://mastodon.social/users/lrvick","avatar":"https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/929/154/original/873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","avatar_static":"https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/929/154/original/873ba8b0fc348f96.jpg","avatar_description":"","header":"https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/headers/000/929/154/original/a0b5ddb243ed52f3.jpeg","header_static":"https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/headers/000/929/154/original/a0b5ddb243ed52f3.jpeg","header_description":"","followers_count":1713,"following_count":279,"statuses_count":1149,"last_status_at":"2026-05-20","hide_collections":false,"show_media":true,"show_media_replies":true,"show_featured":true,"noindex":false,"feature_approval":{"automatic":["public"],"manual":[],"current_user":"denied"},"emojis":[],"roles":[],"fields":[{"name":"OpenPGP","value":"openpgp4fpr:6B61ECD76088748C70590D55E90A401336C8AAA9","verified_at":null},{"name":"Matrix","value":"<span class=\"h-card\" translate=\"no\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@lrvick\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>lrvick</span></a></span>:matrix.org","verified_at":null},{"name":"Resume","value":"<a href=\"https://lance.dev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener me\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">lance.dev</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>","verified_at":null},{"name":"Community","value":"<a href=\"https://hashbang.sh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener me\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">hashbang.sh</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>","verified_at":null}]},"media_attachments":[],"mentions":[],"tags":[],"emojis":[],"tagged_collections":[],"quote":null,"card":null,"poll":null,"quote_approval":{"automatic":[],"manual":[],"current_user":"denied"}}