In Uzbekistan, authorities committed the disclosure of personal data of a coronavirus patient
In social networks and Telegram channels, personal information about a woman infected with coronavirus has appeared. After a while, personal data of family members were also revealed: names and surnames, places of work and study, photos.
The leak of part of the information was probably made by the staff of the clinic of the Research Institute of Virology in Tashkent. Other information is available only to security forces. Thus, laws on personal data and on protecting the health of citizens were violated.
Two days after arriving from Paris, the woman, a doctor of the highest category, suspected that something was wrong and came to the institute on March 13 to check. Analyzes and symptoms confirmed her fears, she was immediately quarantined.
ACCA journalist contacted a doctor at a hospital in Tashkent. He is confident in “intentional connivance in disseminating information about the patient and her relatives who have hundreds of friends and acquaintances”. Moreover, he is convinced that part of the fakes induces by power itself. For example, the appearance of virus information about the ban on letting children out on the street and the sanitation of Tashkent by helicopters. In a number of districts of Tashkent, some activists are already explaining to their parents about the dangers of walking in the fresh air and the possibility of getting under dusting.
The version is confirmed by the lack of information about the authors of fake news from law enforcement officers. A few days ago, they quickly determined the organizer of the flash mob against rising car prices, as stated by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, who heads the Special Republican Commission to prevent the import and spread of the coronavirus Covid-19.
At the time of writing material, it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with the Prosecutor’s General office and other responsible bodies, created a working group to identify actions aimed at disseminating false information related to coronavirus. The Ministry of Internal Affairs said that “to date, the working group has identified 33 social media accounts that misinterpret the situation in the country, disseminate destructive information, sow panic among the population, disrupt the peaceful life of citizens, and destabilize the situation. Of these, 25 accounts belong to users abroad, 8 – to citizens of Uzbekistan”.
According to the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Shohrukh Giyasov, two people were identified who disseminated information about citizens infected with the virus and are in quarantine. Their actions are given a legal assessment.
