It emerged last week that Law was seeking an injunction against Frost and Blake Publishing, which intends to publish the memoir Crazy Days later this year, because of concerns for the privacy and welfare of their three children.
Mr Hazell said: "The board refutes in the strongest possible terms any suggestion that information was redacted from the published report for any reason other than to protect the privacy and welfare of the Laura's daughter and immediate family".
The safeguarding board said in the report it had redacted the "equivalent of around eight pages of text out of the more than 160" to "protect the privacy and welfare of Laura's daughter and immediate family".
Safeguarding the health, welfare, privacy and confidentiality of research participants is a heavy responsibility for editors, and rejection on ethical grounds is a rare but sometimes necessary occurrence, as unpopular among authors who receive it as it is among editors who have to determine it.
The authors cite encounters with tuberculosis (TB), syphilis, HIV/AIDS, and immunization registry efforts to illustrate the pervasive tension in disease surveillance activities that has existed between privacy and the welfare of society since the inception of surveillance in the 19th century.
This means that benefit claimants whose children are truanting can be identified, but some groups are concerned about the implications of suspending welfare recipients' privacy.
Safeguards will therefore be necessary to protect the welfare and privacy of participants of genomic research [ 33, 34].
"The concern is privacy issues and health and welfare of female operators in an austere environment," General Sacolick said.
The case has not prompted much outrage, perhaps because the people whose privacy is being invaded are welfare recipients, but it is a serious setback for the privacy rights of all Americans.
Centrelink's error-prone debt recovery system has been slammed for placing blind faith in big data and prioritising "efficiency over human welfare", as lawyers, privacy advocates and data experts join calls for it to be suspended.
