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Unauthorized disclosure of a patient’s private information breaches confidentiality and is described as invasion of privacy. In healthcare, patients have a right to control who sees their medical details, so sharing those details without consent violates their privacy and can be both an ethical breach and a legal violation under privacy protections. The other choices don’t fit as well: defamation involves false statements that harm someone’s reputation, not the act of sharing private information; professional responsibility refers to the duties clinicians owe in general without naming the specific privacy breach; ethical malpractice isn’t a standard term used to describe this scenario. Invasion of privacy best captures the situation.