If you refer to legal breach of confidentiality an attorney could in theory be disbarred from practicing law.
Here is a list of professions which hold a confidentiality law and their possible consequences for not following them:
Attorney: disbarment
Doctor: license taken away
therapist: license taken away
Priest: sanction by the Roman court, possible inability to be a priest if you reveal something heard in confessional (this has to my knowledge never happened)
D. Ethical or legal
consequences due to breach of confidentiality includes: - Loss of Revenue - Loss of Reputation - Loss of Client - Embarrassment - Breach of Legal/Moral/Ethical Obligation
Microchips when handled without the greatest degree of security can breach the confidentiality of medical records and any other records. Microchips store so much information that interception of them can have devastating consequences.
You can write a book on this subject, and some have. However, in brief, yes a breach of confidentiality can have serious ethical and legal consequences. First, the breach among many things can break the trust factor among friends, families, other personal relationships etc. For military, law enforcement, medical doctors, licensed psychologists, lawyers, etc, there are legal consequences.
when a life is in danger.
Certain situations, professions, or contracts require an individual to keep certain information confidential or secret. If the individual discloses that information to a third party, this disclosure constitutes a breach of confidentiality.
When the secret levy doesn't hold.
By discussing a case in which the identity of the patient was revelaed to the group or which could be deduced and ascertained by means of the information disclosed.
Yes. Any case in which a therapist discloses client information to another person is considered a breach of confidentiality. Even in legitimate cases of disclosure like contacting the authorities when a client reports abusing a child, it is still considered a breach of client confidentiality even though it is a legal mandate.
If your doctor, for example, told some unauthorised person your medical history, that would be a breach of confidentiality
Prevent breach charts in wall holder
Would a receptionist with no medical training constitute a breach for patient-doctor confidentiality?
Licence can be cancel
No laws have been broken. However there has been a breach of confidentiality which could be challenged as a civil matter.