Frequent leaks of new crown flow information: involving multiple links, may only be due to a careless repost
The Paper Journalist Zhu Xuan and intern Zhao Ruozhu
The epidemiological investigation (hereinafter referred to as the flow regulation) report leakage incident has attracted much attention in this round of the epidemic. "Ban Yue Tan" issued an article on January 20, stating that the report leakage incidents were frequent, causing secondary injuries to patients and directly causing public doubts. Circulating information security and reliability affects the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control.
The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) combed and found that from the current public cases, the leakage sources of the flow report are diverse and involve multiple links, including hospital staff, CDC staff, aviation security staff, and handling flow Reporting staff, etc., may inadvertently become leakers. After they obtain the flow information, they forward it to individuals or group chats. The relevant information is quickly spread through social media, and some patients are even subjected to online violence.
Expert analysis believes that the prevention and management of personal privacy leakage and the cyber violence incidents it induces is still an issue worthy of attention.
Government departments should establish and improve a set of effective systems and standard operating procedures to avoid excessive collection, excessive disclosure and leakage of personal information; they should increase the investigation and accountability of information leakers and perpetrators of cyber violence. Make it afraid to leapfrog one step.
The sources of information leaks are diverse, involving doctors, participants in the stream, etc.
The The Paper combed and found that, based on the current public cases, the persons who leaked the information on the flow of information included the Health Commission and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention staff, medical workers, and other positions that had access to the flow report, such as flight security.
The Paper reported on January 18 that in the "Leakage of Li XX Report" incident, Li Mourong, a trainee of the Xinjiang County CDC in Shanxi Province, was a participant in the circulator, (he) was for the purpose of finding contacts. , Sent this report to his sister, who spread it in the WeChat group, causing a bad influence.
According to the report, after a research decision, Li Mourong’s trainee contract was terminated, a written inspection was made on the chief section chief and the leaders in charge, and the general meeting notified criticism, and the county CDC director general meeting reviewed.
On January 7, the “Hangzhou release” reported that the personal information of a case of asymptomatic infection in Fuyang imported from abroad was spread on the Internet on a large scale. According to the investigation by the public security agency, Lin, a hospital physician at a hospital in Xihu District A certain person forwarded the relevant circulation report to the WeChat group, which caused a large-scale spread on the Internet, and was suspected of infringing on the privacy of others and was sentenced to administrative detention for five days.
The public account of the Press Office of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau “Ping An Beijing” issued a notice on January 4 that Liu, an employee of an aviation security company, would use it to screen the patient’s preliminary flow report for the work of the close contact personnel during work. In the WeChat group, the personal privacy information of patients, their families and colleagues was leaked.
On December 24, the Shunyi Public Security Bureau imposed administrative detention on Liu according to law.
Relying on the rapid spread of social media, has caused online violence
Many new coronary pneumonia patient reports or related information leakage incidents have been widely spread through social media such as Weibo and WeChat.
At the beginning of December 2020, a 20-year-old woman in Chengdu, Zhao, who went to many bars before the diagnosis, was widely disseminated on Weibo and was verbally abused and ridiculed by some netizens. Related topics appeared on Weibo hot searches.
"I really don't understand why there are so many people attacking me. I just accidentally infected the new crown and I am also a victim." Zhao said in a post on today's headline that people have been calling her and sending messages after the information was leaked.
On December 9, the Chenghua District police reported that they had imposed administrative penalties on the man involved, but they did not disclose Wang’s occupation and the channels for obtaining Zhao’s information.
A similar situation occurred in Yiyang, Hunan. The leaker sent the investigation report of the new coronary pneumonia case to others via WeChat. After that, the relevant information quickly spread within a few hours.
On January 29, 2020, the Commission for Discipline Inspection of Yiyang City, Hunan Province issued a notice stating that at 8:35 on the 28th, Shu Qingguo, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Heshan District Health Bureau, Yiyang City, through WeChat, will “report a case of a new type of coronavirus in the Fourth People's Hospital of Yiyang City. The investigation report of the infected pneumonia cases" was forwarded to Duan Junfei, the financial appraisal staff of the Heshan District Finance Bureau.
At 9:50, Duan Junfei forwarded the electronic version of the investigation report to Deng Wei, Chief of the Supervision Unit of the Finance Bureau of Heshan District via WeChat.
At 9:52, Deng Wei forwarded the electronic version of the investigation report to his relatives group "453 Gather Bar" (group members 47).
Subsequently, Xu Yan (Teacher of Longzhou Elementary School), a member of the "453 Jieba" group, forwarded the electronic version of the survey report to the owner group of SVA Home (245 members).
Soon, the information was quickly forwarded and spread.
The report stated that the Heshan District Commission for Discipline Inspection decided to file a party discipline investigation against Shu Qingguo, and give admonitions and talks to Duan Junfei and Deng Wei; the relevant departments gave Xu Yan a circular and criticism.
Leaks are often subject to administrative penalties
In the aforementioned incidents, people who leaked or disseminated COVID-19 information were mostly subject to administrative penalties.
In the incident of a certain person from Chengdu woman Zhao, Wang (male, 24), who was involved, forwarded a picture related to the "Chengdu epidemic and Zhao's identity information and activity track" on his Weibo. Serious infringement of the privacy of others, causing adverse social impact, was administratively punished by the police; in the case of the leakage of the circulation report of the Xixinjiang County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Li Mourong, a trainee staff member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, took the initiative to surrender to the public security organs, and the public security organs violated the law The behavior is punished by public security.
Ding Jinkun, a lawyer at the Shanghai Dabang Law Firm, analyzed that the dissemination and dissemination of personal information such as case names, ID number photos, etc. caused distress and constituted a civil tort.
The person who distributes the information shall bear civil liability, such as stopping the infringement, apologizing, compensating for losses, restoring the influence, etc.
It is illegal to spread privacy or fabricate facts to slander others. According to Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishments, public security penalties should be imposed.
How to protect the privacy of patients?
Ma Liang, a researcher at the National Institute of Development and Strategy at Renmin University of China and a professor at the School of Public Administration, published an analysis on the paper on January 12.
Ma Liang believes that people reject close contacts and confirmed patients because of panic, which makes the mentality of passing on responsibility and venting anger more than empathy and compassion, and induces online violence.
In addition, the temporary staff and volunteers of some government departments and grassroots organizations lack professional quality and experience, and the problem of personal privacy leakage occurs when transferring information.
He believes that how to prevent and manage personal privacy leakage and the cyber violence incidents it induces is still an issue worthy of attention.
First, when collecting and disclosing the personal information of confirmed patients, government departments should establish and improve a set of effective systems and standard operating procedures to avoid excessive collection, excessive disclosure and leakage of personal information.
Second, increase the investigation and accountability of information leakers and perpetrators of online violence, so that they dare not step beyond the thunder pool, so as to effectively strengthen the protection of confirmed patients.
Finally, strengthen psychological counseling for diagnosed patients, increase online honesty education for the public, and create an inclusive social atmosphere of caring and mutual assistance for diagnosed patients.