11. Non‑consensual disclosure of private information

In this Act, “non‑consensual disclosure of private information” means the publication of any private information of a person (called in this section the victim), where —

In this section, “private information” means any information about a person that was not, prior to the publication, widely available to the public at large, and regulations may clarify the types of information that are (or are not) to be considered private information for the purposes of this section.IllustrationX discloses, without Y’s consent, that Y is suffering from a neurocognitive disease. This fact was not widely available to the public prior to X’s disclosure and Y did not exhibit any symptom in public. This fact is Y’s private information.

This section does not apply to any private information of a person that was obtained by perceiving in public or through publicly available information such as —