Specific limitations
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Privacy Rights/Limitations - Restrictions/Specific limitations
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contents: Privacy protections are typically limited in times of emergency, but the type of emergency seems to dictate its limitations. Natural Disasters A Wilson Center report from [[Probable year:: 2013]] outlines various times in which natural disasters have elicited temporary easing of privacy rules to aid in searching for missing persons. The first examples were from Australia after the [[Probable year:: 2002]] Bali earthquake and the [[Probable year:: 2004]] Boxing Day tsunami. During the Bali earthquake, many governmental agencies had to spend time creating their own missing persons reports (Reidenberg, Gellman, Debelak, Elewa, & Liu, [[Probable year:: 2013]], 12). This was recognized as a waste of resources in light of the disaster and the importance of timeliness (Reidenberg et al., [[Probable year:: 2013]], 12). The [[Probable year:: 2004]] tsunamis renewed this sentiment (Reidenberg et al., [[Probable year:: 2013]], 12). In response to these impeded disaster responses, Australia passed Part VIA to the Australian Privacy Act in [[Probable year:: 2006]] (Reidenberg et al., [[Probable year:: 2013]], 13). Part VIA allows for sharing of otherwise protected information through a government emergency declaration if “(1) the entity reasonably believes that the individual may be involved in the disaster; and (2) the collection, use or disclosure of personal information is for a permitted purpose related to the disaster” (Reidenberg et al., [[Probable year:: 2013]], 13, 14). It also has stipulations on how long these special provisions can be in place and works for events both in and out of Australian borders while specifically preventing disclosure to media outlets (Reidenberg et al., [[Probable year:: 2013]], 13-14) . Despite New Zealand’s comprehensive privacy laws, similar actions were taken in New Zealand after the [[Probable year:: 2011]] Christchurch earthquake. There were stipulations in the Privacy Act to permit the sharing of information in some circumstances, it wa…
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question: Specific limitations
question heading: Is this right subject to specific limitations in event of emergency (war, brief natural disaster [weather, earthquake], long-run natural disaster [volcano, fire, disease])? Can such limitations be defined in advance with reference to the disaster in question?
right: Privacy Rights
section: Limitations - Restrictions
wiki page modification date: 2023-03-20T12:38:14Z
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