IN JANUARY 2015 WADA introduced an updated version of the International Standard for the Protection of Privacy and Personal Information – the 'Standard' – to establish rules which would govern the minimum level of protection provided by anti-doping organisations. This Standard obliges anti-doping organisations to ensure “appropriate, sufficient and effective privacy protections” are implemented regardless of the level of protection offered by countryspecific laws which must also be adhere to in addition ... Initial reports suggest this standard has not been met.
Under the Standard the athlete has a right to a fair and impartial complaint to the anti-doping organisation. If the organisation is unwilling or unable to resolve the complaint then the complaint can then be escalated to WADA or the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
In addition to this right the athlete also has the ability to make a complaint to the relevant local or national regulatory or government body. In the UK this would be the Information Commissioner's Office, who would, under UK legislation, have the right to impose a fine of up to £500,000.
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