Estonia’s Patient Privacy Breach
An ambulance record handed to police has exposed a gap in Estonia’s safeguards, months after authorities reviewed their access to sensitive information.
Estonia’s Health and Welfare Information Systems Centre, known as TEHIK, acknowledged on November 3 that it had supplied an ambulance record to police without a sufficient legal basis.
The request came from the Police and Border Guard Board in September 2025 during proceedings concerning a firearms license after an incident involving drug intoxication.
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