Stuff.co.nz reports on hospital patients who have lodged complaints with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner after their personal information was shared. “The Southern District Health Board copped flak in March after one of its staff members accidentally sent the private details of 60 patients to a person who had no right to see them,” the report states, noting four of the patients told a newspaper the error caused them “distress.” Since then, two of the patients lodged official complaints. "It's caused a lot of stress that was not needed as I had been through surgery," one of the patients wrote.
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