{"id":19125,"date":"2019-02-12T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19125"},"modified":"2019-02-12T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T17:27:11","slug":"victims-of-the-hiv-data-leak-in-singapore-can-totally-take-legal-action-against-the-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/victims-of-the-hiv-data-leak-in-singapore-can-totally-take-legal-action-against-the-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims of the HIV data leak in Singapore can totally take legal action against the Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><span class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/BBTu0ri.img?h=504&amp;w=799&amp;m=6&amp;q=60&amp;o=f&amp;l=f&amp;x=488&amp;y=131\" alt=\"a man sitting on a table: Health Minister Gan Kim Yong. Screengrab from YouTube video\" \/> <\/span> <span class=\"caption truncate\"> Health Minister Gan Kim Yong. Screengrab from YouTube video <\/span><\/p>\n<p>No doubt, the <a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/singapore\/news\/american-conman-deported-singapore-leaked-information-14-2k-people-diagnosed-hiv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">massive leak of confidential data<\/a> involving 14,200 HIV patients in Singapore has left its victims <a href=\"https:\/\/coconuts.co\/singapore\/news\/fury-concern-hiv-data-leak-conservative-singapore-cause-further-ostracization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reeling<\/a> from the implications of having their information exposed.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprising revelation made by the\u00a0health minister in Parliament today, the victims are totally free to take the Ministry of Health (MOH) to court for the breach of data, <a href=\"https:\/\/sg.news.yahoo.com\/hiv-data-leak-affected-patients-can-sue-moh-loss-data-says-gan-kim-yong-090625320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Yahoo News Singapore<\/em><\/a> reported. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-sg\/news\/singapore\/victims-of-the-hiv-data-leak-in-singapore-can-totally-take-legal-action-against-the-health-ministry\/ar-BBTtUcU\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Health Minister Gan Kim Yong. Screengrab from YouTube video No doubt, the massive leak of confidential data involving 14,200 HIV patients in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}