Disclosure
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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.[1]
Additional comments
Occurrences
- 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)
- Apple Faces Lawsuit Over AirTag Stalking Dangers (6 December 2022)
- Apple consumer privacy concerns
- Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Motel 6 Provided ICE with Guest Data (April 2019)
- NSO Group Spyware (November 2019)
- Online Harassment of COVID Infected in South Korea (September 2020)
- Online Violence Against Women and Girls (October 2020)
- PRHC reaches $988K proposed settlement for patient privacy breaches in 2011-2012
- Parents Testing Their Children’s DNA Online (January 2020)
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)
- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (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)