Tages-Anzeiger: Every tenth doctor violates the duty of confidentiality
According to Zurich data protection commissioner Bruno Baeriswyl, doctors who store data unencrypted on servers are violating the Data Protection Act. He says, “If they also transmit them unencrypted, then, depending on the case, they even make themselves liable to prosecution.” The Federal Data Protection Commissioner agrees with Baeriswyl. Article 321 of the Criminal Code states: Anyone who discloses a “secret that has been entrusted to him as a result of his profession (…) shall, upon request, be punished by imprisonment for up to three years or a fine.”