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Privacy issue

  • 18-06-2015 12:26pm
    #1
    Youngblood.III
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    If a someone was out sick and another fellow worker was disclosing the details to a customer, would this be a breech of privacy of the sick person.


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  • #2
    234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭234


    Youngblood.III wrote: »
    If a someone was out sick and another fellow worker was disclosing the details to a customer, would this be a breech of privacy of the sick person.

    I can't see how there is any issue here. There is no general right to privacy as between ordinary citizens unless there are soe circumstances giving rise to an expectation of confidentiality.

    There may be a data protection issue if personal data was disclose. But the fact of somebody being sick is not personal data.


  • #3
    Youngblood.III
    Site Banned Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Youngblood.III


    234 wrote: »
    I can't see how there is any issue here. There is no general right to privacy as between ordinary citizens unless there are soe circumstances giving rise to an expectation of confidentiality.

    There may be a data protection issue if personal data was disclose. But the fact of somebody being sick is not personal data.

    Ok...Would disclosing the nature and length of illness with a customer be a breech, as a customer, what right to they have to this info?


  • #4
    234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,529 ✭✭✭234


    Youngblood.III wrote: »
    Ok...Would disclosing the nature and length of illness with a customer be a breech, as a customer, what right to they have to this info?

    It's not a matter of what right the customer has, you need to show that you have a right to keep it private.

    If it was a doctor they would be bound by professional obligations. If it was your employer then there would be various contractual rights and obligations that you could point to.

    However, if you just told a co-worker then its pretty much the same as telling a friend. They are pretty much free to tell whoever they wish. It might be different if the co-worker was told by your employer and then the co-worker told a customer.


  • #5
    conorh91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    It sounds like an issue to take up with your employer, not a legal issue really.

    If you were to raise this with your employer, and the gossiping continued, the problem might then take on a legal dimension.


  • #6
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    I suppose it depends partly on how much detail is passed on. If the customer asks "Is Steve in?" and is told he's out sick and expected in next Monday, no biggie. If the answer is "Steve was out with some slapper and he's out till next Monday sorting out his syphilis", that's a bit more serious.


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