{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"hipaa-taint-record-keeps-prior-state-when-authority-is-prior","canonical_anchor":"hipaa-taint-record-keeps-prior-state-when-authority-is-prior","heading":"Earlier health-data sightings are kept when confirmed from past evidence","tier":"internal","area":"Elsewhere","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/hipaa-taint-record-keeps-prior-state-when-authority-is-prior","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### Earlier health-data sightings are kept when confirmed from past evidence\n\nA check based on earlier evidence no longer clears a record that health data covered by HIPAA was seen\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which feature keeps this record or when it is used.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code keeps a record of where it has seen, or ruled out, data marked as covered by HIPAA, the US health-privacy law. When an update rests on earlier evidence and the new content carries no such mark, the record is now left as it was. Before, the entry was always removed and then added back as seen or ruled out.\n\n**Why**\n\nA confirmation based on past evidence can no longer wipe out an earlier sighting of health data.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}