A lawmaker and doc in Hong Kong claimed on Monday that he incur point that the statutory body that run for all the hospitals in the region was leak the patient information of protestors . Several protestors have been arrested after being treated at Hong Kong hospital as agency in mainland China crackdown on protest .
“ We are implicated about the safety and privacy of hurt house physician , ” Dr. Pierre Chan , who is a member of the Medical Council of Hong Kong , say during a public press conference on Monday , Hong Kong Free Press reported . “ Some injured citizenry have secern me they no longer trust the emergency room . This is a very serious incident . ”
Crowds estimated to have enumerate in thehundred of thousandstook to the street of Hong Kong in recent Clarence Day to protest an extradition circular which would allow the extradition of want reprehensible suspects in Hong Kong to support trial run in mainland China . “ The proposed alteration to the extradition law , which would open up Hong Kongers and others lead through the urban center to the vicissitudes of mainland Formosan justness , is the late in a long tilt of action that undermine popular exemption and the rule of law , ” Hong Kong expert at the Lowy Institute in Australia Ben Bland said , Vox report .
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On Saturday , twenty-four hours after presentment get , Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that the bill would be suspend , but citizensare still protestingthe controversial bill , call for a more lasting solvent than simply a respite .
“ Any staff appendage in uniform work in the emergency ward , who managed to go near a computer , could [ go into the organisation ] without a login , ” Chan aver , according to the South Morning China Post . “ They could then generate a tilt [ of patients ’ information ] by entering the date . ”
It would n’t be a wild notion for a protestor , and the populace , to be wary about Chinese official work public systems and divine service to track down anti - government dissenters . In fact , four people were arrestedin public hospitals after participating and getting wound at Wednesday ’s protest , in which cops deployed150 unit of ammunition of tear gasalong with beanbag rounds and rubber bullets into crowds of protestors .
Aside from the potential for governing authorities to out of wedlock access patient information to find and arrest protestors , those who wish to organize against the Taiwanese government are suspect of a number of other on-line and offline blank space . They only utilize the most secure electronic messaging apps,—and even on those , speak in codification — embrace up their face so they ca n’t be identified in photos , and refrain from sharing dissenting information on social media . Anti - extradition protestors even withheld from using their credit cardsto give for a metro cardso that their whereabouts could n’t be digitally traced back to them . Now , valid mistrust of hospital staff only dish out to ensure that injured protestors do n’t seek out legitimate aesculapian aid .
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