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Original caption: Suspected leaked information from close contacts and family and friends of the confirmed Shanghai case involving the names of six people and their mobile phone numbers.
According to the Southern Metropolis Daily, since the beginning of this year, there have been many cases of personal information leaks from COVID-19 patients and close contacts. Recently, a case of new coronary pneumonia was confirmed in Shanghai. Just a day later, it was suspected that the name, identification number, mobile phone number, home address and tracking information of the patient and their close contacts had been leaked.
In response, Wang Xinrui, senior partner and attorney at the Beijing Anli Law Firm, told the Privacy Guard that there is a higher probability of contracting infectious diseases, but that people are exposed to leaks of confidential information and can be treated in ways unfair. This happens. “It is necessary to investigate the legal responsibility of the relevant personnel.”
It is understood that in many similar incidents of information leakage, relevant personnel have been sanctioned. In February this year, an assistant police officer and a village cadre in Beilun District, Ningbo City, were detained for six days and fined 500 yuan for leaking information about patients and their close contacts.
Details of close contacts suspected of leaking
Around 6:00 p.m. on November 9, Shanghai held a press conference on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, reporting on a new confirmed case of novel coronary pneumonia and revealed that patient Wang Mo was working at the Pudong airport.
Li Guohua, deputy mayor of Shanghai’s Pudong New Area, told the press conference that at 5:00 p.m. on the same day, after the investigation, the case had 26 close contacts, including family members and colleagues from the unit. . At present, centralized isolation medical observation has been implemented and the first nucleic acid sampling has been completed.
The Privacy Guard noted that on the 10th, an epidemiological investigation report of Liu, a close contact of the allegedly confirmed person Wang, began circulating on the Internet. The image shows that Liu is a colleague in the Wang case.
The picture not only shows Liu’s real name, gender, age, ID number, contact number, height, weight, home registration address, whereabouts and other information in detail, but also reveals the parents, girlfriend and Liu’s colleagues. The person’s real name, identification number, mobile phone number, etc.
According to Liu’s tracking information, netizens began to “think” of the scene of him traveling on multiple subway trips to find his girlfriend for dinner, and even “picking up CP”, admiring the love between them. However, some netizens bluntly said that this is a violation of the privacy of others, “please take responsibility for leaked personnel.”
In response to this matter, the Privacy Guard contacted Liu on the afternoon of the 11th and the other party said that it was not appropriate to accept an interview. Staff from the Shanghai Jing’an District Center for Disease Control and Prevention said they are actively monitoring the situation.
Staff members were punished in multiple incidents of leaking confidential information
Since the outbreak of the new corona epidemic, there have been frequent leaks of personal information from confirmed individuals and their close contacts. Around the Spring Festival, information registration was held for returnees across the country, and lists containing information such as identification numbers were distributed to various WeChat groups. An investigation by the Privacy Guard found that the information of more than 7,000 returnees from Wuhan had been leaked. At the time, an informant revealed that the source of the information leak was directly related to the way returnees were being registered.
On February 21, the personal information of a patient, her husband, father-in-law and son was leaked in Beilun District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, including names, identification numbers, mobile phone numbers, and other information.
In mid-April, under the conditions of normalization of epidemic prevention and control, Qingdao Jiaozhou Central Hospital received attention for the appearance of multiple confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and asymptomatic infections. After posting an emergency tracking notice that he had recently visited the hospital, a detailed list of phone numbers, house numbers, identification numbers and types of medical visits for more than 6,000 people was circulated locally.
Regarding the victims of these incidents, Wang Xinrui told the privacy guard that there is a higher probability of contracting infectious diseases, but that people are exposed to the leakage of confidential information and can be treated unfairly. In this case, “relevant personnel must be investigated. Legal responsibility. “He stressed that if state agencies or units with administrative management functions experience data breaches, they must also be held accountable.
The Personal Information Protection Act (Draft), which has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress for deliberation, stipulates that in order to comply with statutory duties, state agencies will process personal information in accordance with the powers and procedures prescribed by laws and administrative regulations, and shall not exceed those necessary for the performance of statutory duties. Scope and limits. And not disclose or provide others with the personal information that it processes.
The Privacy Guard pointed out that in multiple incidents of information leaks from patients with new coronary pneumonia and their close contacts, those responsible for the related work have been punished.
In the aforementioned Ningbo Patient Information Leakage Incident, for disseminating personal information of the patient and their families, Police Assistant Ye from Xinqi Police Station in Beilun District and Shi Moumou, the village cadre from Xiaoshan, Xinqi Street, were respectively detained for six days and fined 500 yuan. .
On February 5, law enforcement officers from the Zhejiang Pinghu Health and Health Bureau discovered that a WeChat group released screenshots of the medical records of a patient confirmed with a new crown. The results of the investigation showed that Xu, a practicing physician in the Department of Anesthesiology at First People’s Hospital in Pinghu City, privately took photos of the home page of the patient’s electronic medical record and sent them to the group of fellow practitioners. WeChat class. The photo was widely disseminated, leading to normal work, life, and physical and mental health of the patient and his family. Health is seriously affected. In the end, the doctor received an administrative sanction to suspend his practice for 6 months.
(Wang and Liu are aliases in the text)
Source: Southern Metropolis Daily
