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posted by martyb on Thursday September 03 2015, @12:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the must-not-have-used-gmail dept.

The BBC News reports that:

The 56 Dean Street clinic in London's Soho sent out the names and email addresses of 780 patients when a newsletter was issued to people who attend the clinic. Patients were supposed to be blind-copied into the email but instead details were sent as a group email.

From an interview with one patient:

One man, a 40-year-old public sector worker, has been HIV positive for 13 years and has been using the Dean Street clinic for five. He said: "I felt sick when I realised what had happened. I first saw the email at work but ignored it as I was busy. I then looked at it when I was on the way home from work. I couldn't breathe. I'm concerned who will get this information. If it ends up in the hands of the wrong people, such as hate groups, it could be dynamite."

Further:

Fellow patient James ... said: "I was travelling back from the pride parade in Manchester on Monday when I received this email. I couldn't believe it when I got it and I've been full of worry since. I am not ready to disclose my HIV status to my wider friends or family. I fear now that I have no choice."

Finally, a friend informs me that a breach of privacy at another clinic may be widely reported within the next few days.


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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:38PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:38PM (#231953)

    What exactly in that post do you consider immature? Drawing the parallel between two forms of willful ignorance?

    Accusing me of being someone who thinks "the GPL is a fraud" is intended to derail the conversation and attack me at the same time. Pretending you were just drawing parallels between to very dissimilar things is silly.

    Yes. I am. Because treating negatives any different is a way to signal positives that they are positive without getting the counseling and is thus self-defeating.

    That is an argument i think you could win. I will defer to current civilian practices of notifying people of cancer and other "important" life changing diagnoses. I have personally received the "You have cancer" talk and it was in person, so there is that.

    No. Because that is not how real people work. Robots, sure. But regular people, just giving them a phone number which they will avoid calling because they are in denial is not helpful.

    I think that is weak because every carton of cigarettes says it will kill you and people still do it. Being notified in person versus reading it in a letter will result in the same level of denial.

    the maturity of your argument is indisputable.

    I'm glad we're finally agreeing on something : )

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @08:46PM (#231958)

    > Pretending you were just drawing parallels between to very dissimilar things is silly.

    Whether you think it was an attack or not, your restatement of my intention as being to refer to dissimilar things is by far the most immature thing in this thread.

    > I think that is weak because every carton of cigarettes says it will kill you and people still do it.
    > Being notified in person versus reading it in a letter will result in the same level of denial.

    What?
    (A) Buying a pack of cigarettes is nothing even remotely like receiving a medical diagnosis.
    (B) Sitting face to face with a person who is trained to mitigate denial is nothing like receiving a letter.