Disclosure

Disclosure is a form of DISSEMINATION privacy harm under the Solove taxonomy. Disclosure is defined as "revealing truthful information about a person that impacts her security or the way others judge her character."

A government agency revealing an individual's address to a stalker, resulting in the individual's murder.

Occurrences

• "Cerebral's FTC Settlement: A Landmark Case on Consumer Privacy and Data Misuse in Telehealth" (2024)
• 1Health.io and it's Inadequate Protection of Genetic Data and Unfair Privacy Policy (16 June 2023)
• AI Impersonation Through Deepfakes Troubles Bollywood (November 2023)
• Access to Face Recognition Search of Moscow Cameras System Is For Sale (November 2020)
• Amazon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Children’s Privacy Charges (May 2023)
• Ancestry.com Genealogy Company Giving Access to Its Database to the Police (2015)
• App Companies and Radio Broadcaster Siriux XM Accused of Sharing Sensitive Data Without Consent (5 December 2024)
• Apple Faces Lawsuit Over AirTag Stalking Dangers (6 December 2022)
• Apple consumer privacy concerns
• Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
• BetterHelp under Fire : " FTC Alleges Privacy Violations and Misleading Practices in Online Counseling" (March 2023)
• CPPA vs. Honda: First Non-Broker CCPA Enforcement (7 March 2025)
• CVS, Kroger, and Rite Aid Disclose Patient Prescriptions Without a Warrant (15 December 2023)
• California Can Share Gun Owners' Personal Information With Researchers (September 2021)
• California Permitted to Share Gun Owners' Personal Information with Researchers (21 November 2023)
• Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
• Child Suspects’ Private Data Published Online (October 2020)
• Connex Credit Union Investigated Over Data Breach (3 June 2025)
• Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
• Content Written On Amazon Package
• DHS Buys Cellphone Location Data (October 2020)
• Departments of Motor Vehicles Sell Personal Information of Drivers (2019)
• Digital Harassment After an Online Affair (November 2017)
• Disappearance of British woman: Privacy Concerns and Police Transparency (27 January 2023)
• Elon Musk Twitter Suspension (16 December 2022)
• Exploring the Perceptions of Location Sharing: Privacy vs. Affection (2023)
• FBI Using Travel Company Data to Track People (July 2020)
• Facebook Allowed Third Parties Read Users’ Messages (December 2019)
• Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Privacy Scandal (2016)
• FamilyTreeDNA Share Its Genealogy Database With the FBI (January 2019)
• Female Student Killed After Blackmail (2020)
• France aims to protect kids from parents oversharing pics online (28 February 2023)
• Google Bug Sent Private Videos to the Wrong People (2020)
• Google Gets Access to Health Records from Ascension (November 2019)
• Google Gives Search Keywords Data to Police (October 2020)
• Google workers demand abortion protections and stronger data privacy (August 2022)
• Hack of Law Enforcement Websites Exposes Personal Information of 700,000 Cops (June 2020)
• IBMs Weather Channel App Sharing User Location Data (2018)
• IRS Harvesting Data From a Database of Smartphone Movements (November 2020)
• Impersonating Profiles on Grindr (September 2018)
• Information About Adopting Parents Shared With Birth Parents (2016)
• Instagram Sliders (2019)
• Liberty Safe Discloses Master Code (30 August 2023)
• Manpower of Lansing Investigated Over Data Breach (August 2025)
• Mariott Hotels Sharing Employee Fingerprint Data (April 2018)
• Mayor Reading Names and Addresses of People on Facebook Live (June 2020)
• Member of Parliament Leaks COVID Patients Information to Press (July 2020)
• Mental Health Charities in the UK Hand Facebook Sensitive Data (3 June 2023)
• Microsoft and OpenAI Face $3B Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations (June 2023)
• Misucal. ly (later TikTok) Collecting Personal Information from Children (February 2019)

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Laws and Regulations

The following laws and regulations address the Disclosure harm.

• (410 ILCS § 50/). Medical Patient Rights Act. (United States, Illinois)
• (410 ILCS § 513/). Genetic Information Privacy Act (United States, Illinois)
• (720 ILCS §-23.5.). Non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images (United States, Illinois)
• (740 ILCS § 14/). Biometric Information Privacy Act. (United States, Illinois)
• 10 U.S.C. §1102 (United States)
• 42 CFR Subpart F (United States)
• 42 U.S.C. Subchapter VII (United States)
• 42 U.S.C. § 1396a (United States)
• 42 U.S.C. § 290dd–2 (United States)
• 5 U.S.C. §552a (United States)
• 806 KAR 3:220. Privacy of Health Information. (United States, Kentucky)
• AK. SB 217. Chapter 13. Genetic Privacy. (United States, Alaska)
• AR Code Title 5. Criminal Offenses § 5-26-314. Unlawful distribution of sexual images or recordings (United States, Arkansas)
• AZ Revised Statutes Title 13. Criminal Code § 13-1425. Unlawful disclosure of images depicting states of nudity or specific sexual activities; classification; definitions (United States, Arizona)
• AZ. HB 2144. Genetic testing; Informed consent. (United States, Arizona)
• CA PEN § 647 (United States, California)
• CH. 126. Genetic Privacy Act. (United States, New Jersey)
• CH. 13-02-21. Disclosure of Customer Information by Financial Institutions. (United States, North Dakota)
• CH. 19.255. Personal Information—Notice of Security Breaches. (United States, Washington)
• CH. 241. Hospitals. (United States, Texas)
• CH. 31. Volunteer Health Services Program. (United States, Wyoming)
• CH. 3798. Protected Health Information. (United States, Ohio)
• CH. 45. Genetic Testing Privacy Act. (United States, Utah)
• CH. 48.1. Consumer Privacy Protection Act. (United States, Rhode Island)
• CH. 482-1-122. Alabama Insurance Regulation. (United States, Alabama)
• CH. 51-30. Notice of Security Breach for Personal Information. (United States, North Dakota)
• CH. 53B. Financial Privacy Act. (United States, North Carolina)
• CH. 546. Use of Genetic Testing Information. (United States, Texas)
• CH. 58. Use of Genetic Information. (United States, Texas)
• CH. 680. Dental Hygienists; Denturists. (United States, Oregon)
• CH. 70.02. Medical Records—Health Care Information Access and Disclosure. (United States, Washington)
• CH. 93. Privacy of Genetic Information. (United States, South Carolina)
• CVR § 50. Right of privacy. (United States, New York)
• Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 (United States)
• Colorado Revised Statute Section Section 18-7-107, 108 (United States, Colorado)
• Communications Act of 1934 (United States)
• Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (United States)
• Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002 (United States)
• Connecticut Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act. (United States, Connecticut)
• Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 (United States)
• Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (United States)
• Dand/test (United States)
• Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (United States)
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act (United States)
• Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (United States)
• Employee Polygraph Protection Act (United States)
• FL XLVI. Crimes § 784.049. Sexual cyberharassment (United States, Florida)
• FLA. SB 1670. Consumer Data Privacy. (United States, Florida)
• Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 (United States)
• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (United States)

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