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Employee privacy, health privacy, and public safety

Posted on July 11, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Every so often, a case comes along that pits health privacy against public safety, such as the case involving a honeymooning Atlanta lawyer who was publicly named — and sued by fellow air passengers — for posing a risk to the public of a treatment-resistant strain of tuberculosis. The lawyer eventually sued the Centers for…

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Après HITECH, le déluge (of reports)

Posted on July 10, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Yesterday on phiprivacy.net, I posted a link to an article in the Journal of AHIMA that discusses how California officials were surprised at how many breach reports they have received since California’s new medical privacy breach reporting law went into effect on Jan. 1. Under the broadened reporting requirements whereby healthcare organizations in California are…

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Botswana court rules on privacy violation

Posted on July 9, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

In the first case of its kind in Botswana, a woman has successfully sued another woman for publicly revealing her HIV status. The High Court in Lobatse, a city in the southeast, has ruled that Sadi Nokane pay Obakeng Madubela US$1,000 in damages for violating Madubela’s right to privacy. Around 55 percent of the population…

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