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Strongly agree. Consider the case of a healthcare application where, during the course of business, staff may perform searches for patients by name. When "Ada Lovelace" appears even briefly in the search results of a "search-as-you-type" for some "Adam _lastname", has their privacy has been compromised? I think so, and the audit log should reflect that.

I'm a fan of FHIR (a healthcare api standard, but far from widely adopted), and they have a secondary set of definitions for Audit log patterns (BALP) that recommends this kind of behaviour. https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/BALP/StructureDefinition-IHE.Ba...

"[Given a query for patients,] When multiple patient results are returned, one AuditEvent is created for every Patient identified in the resulting search set. Note this is true when the search set bundle includes any number of resources that collectively reference multiple Patients."



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