The lack of privacy controls on health information can lead to variety of individual and societal harms. First, potential harms to individuals include embarrassment, stigma, and discrimination. Second, Quality health care may be undermined by individuals foregoing timely treatment for stigmatizing conditions in defensive practices by deliberately withholding sensiindividuals any ability to control the contents or the scope of access to their health information to giving individuals the ability to block or delete any element in their records.