The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Greece for violating the privacy rights of a group of women arrested and publicly identified in 2012 as HIV-positive prostitutes who allegedly endangered public health.

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      Agreed. Prostitution is legal, yet they were operating illegally, and subjecting clients to a deadly, transmissible disease.

      These women essentially provided public services. If any other type of provider of services was endangering the public, there would be no quarrel with naming the guilty parties, so that people who used those services could assess the risk.

      Just because the service was sex, doesn’t mean the public should all the sudden be kept in the dark as to whom might be affected.