Breach of Confidentiality and Various Legal Issues [Video]

Confidentiality has been defined as the “ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to have access” and is one of the cornerstones of information security. Confidentiality also refers to an ethical principle associated with several professions (e.g., medicine, law, religion, professional psychology, and journalism). In ethics, and (in some places) in law and alternative forms of legal dispute resolution such as mediation, some types of communication between a person and one of these professionals are “privileged” and may not be discussed or divulged to third parties.

2. data means information which(a) is being processed by means of equipment operating automatically in response to instructions given for that purpose, (b) is recorded with the intention that it should be processed by means of such equipment, (c) is recorded as part of a relevant filing system or with the intention that it should form part of a relevant filing system, or (d) does not …