Sadly this is no guarantee as the news is replete with stories of people finding medical records in trash or abandoned in close facilities.
However since no system is perfect laws have to exist to prevent the information from being used by others except as how authorized by the law; examples would be preventing prospective employers from using it to filter candidates, housing agencies would be similar restricted. The same law would put in place a means to force it to be removed from any site hosting the information.
The key take away is we cannot guarantee full protection but we minimize the damage caused
However since no system is perfect laws have to exist to prevent the information from being used by others except as how authorized by the law; examples would be preventing prospective employers from using it to filter candidates, housing agencies would be similar restricted. The same law would put in place a means to force it to be removed from any site hosting the information.
The key take away is we cannot guarantee full protection but we minimize the damage caused