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By Juha Saarinen on Jul 30, 2021 6:17AM
Privacy watchdog says reporting raises quite significant ethical concerns.
The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner has expressed concern that information illegally obtained from a regional health authority is being used by journalists to source stories, saying doing so is likely to cause a great deal of anxiety to the people affected .
Yesterday, Radio New Zealand published a story that referenced information obtained from the ransomware attack on the Waikato District Health Board in May.
The state broadcaster has had access to patient files and other sensitive information since June this year, when it said it discovered them on the dark web .
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“That’s hardly a tradeoff when we think about what protection it provides,” she said. “In order to safely shift our wall of defence from our border to individual armour the vaccine provides, it relies on high rates of vaccination.”
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern receives her second Covid-19 vaccine dose from Waikato DHB registered nurse Gordana Nezich. “You don’t need to look far to see why [vaccination] is so important,” Ardern said. “The delta variant is spreading around the world. Even nations with high rates of vaccination are seeing daily cases in the tens of thousands, and hospitalisations and deaths.”
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