Teacher fired for premarital sex

Taurus said
The example I'm thinking of is if you go to the doc for something you'd rather not have bruited about, the HR department processes your pharmacy coverage claim and proceeds to tell everyone you're taking Valtrex for herpes.

So unless she signed off on publication of her condition, the school is in the wrong to even announce she's pregnant or had a baby. For all the world is allowed to know, she may have had a cyst or something.

I don't think it's typical that an HR department would be processing an employee's Valtrex prescription - usually that stuff is handled by the health insurer or 3rd party administrator and not by the employer directly. But in your example, the employer is handling personally identifiable health insurance information and HIPAA confidentiality would probably apply, seems to me at least looking at the summaries of the law.