Singapore HIV Registry Data Leaked Online in Health Breach (bbc.com)
Confidential data about more than 14,000 people diagnosed with HIV, including foreign visitors, has been stolen in Singapore and leaked online. From a report: Authorities revealed details about the 2016 health data breach on Monday. They believe an HIV-positive American whose partner was a senior Singaporean doctor is behind the leak. The hack comes just months after the records of 1.5m Singaporeans, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, were stolen last year. Confidential information including names, addresses, HIV status and other medical information is reportedly included in the latest breach. Officials say the details of 5,400 Singaporeans and 8,800 foreigners dating up to January 2013 have been compromised.
It's well known that gays will lie about their HIV status.
As such, all who are HIV-positive should be on a list which can be accessed by anyone.
I hate registries! Health info, firearm, taxes, whatever. It gets leaked and your data is spread across.
Data wants to be free. Everyone should assume that digital medical records have a non-zero chance of getting out. If you don't want your medical records online, don't agree to digital medical records.
They let in people with HIV?
Communicable diseases, especially incurable, lifelong and fatal ones (HIV) should be public knowledge!
If we don't have the temerity as a species/civilization to quarantine such individuals, at least let the public stay away from them on their own accord!
Not stopping HIV in its tracks in the 1980s was the genesis of the entire SJW movement.
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AND in the usa risk them getting black listed form any health care.
AND in the usa risk them getting black listed form any health care.
Healthcare? We have Healthcare in the US?
I thought we just had Walletcare*
*As in how can I drain your wallet today?
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You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair that they made the Jews wear.
So you want to put people with HIV in a death camp?
When your Godwin turns out to be a 'whoosh'?
This is an excellent response and a great example of why governments should have the bare minimum of power and authority to protect life, liberty, and property.
Most people that advocate for larger and more powerful government seem unable to think two steps ahead as to how that power and authority can be misused.
Government should be given authority to solve a problem ONLY after all other reasonable attempts at solving the problem have failed.
Look, Pelosi pulled off the largest theft in the 21st century. Obamacare had nothing to do with healthcare. It was all about Pelosi paying off certain funders.
That way it cannot possibly be your fault for collecting all that data in the first place.
You don't say, gee, why didn't I think of this when making this comment?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
That's terrible news. I try to always monitor my health, but no one is protected from diseases. To strengthen my heart and blood vessels, I eat glutamine-containing foods every day. Hope you use to anyone list products https://tonusjournal.com/weight-loss/10-best-glutamine-foods/ and you will also be able to strengthen the cardiovascular system to be cheerful and full of energy.
According to this article "the MOH (Singapore Ministry of Health) revealed that some 1,900 names in the leaked data were of people who had already died."
Out of 14,200.
In the Singapore Ministry Of Health official news are the Additional Safeguards in Disease Registries :
(13.) Since 2016, additional safeguards against mishandling of information by authorised staff have been put in place. For example, a two-person approval process to download and decrypt Registry information was implemented in September 2016, to ensure that the information cannot be accessed by a single person. A workstation specifically configured and locked down to prevent unauthorised information removal was designated for processing of sensitive information from the HIV Registry. The use of unauthorised portable storage devices on official computers was disabled in MOH in 2017, as part of a government-wide policy.