Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Brian Beamish wants “the government to prosecute health workers who allegedly snooped into medical records,” while he’s “reevaluating his court case against Toronto police over disclosing suicide attempts in records shared with outside agencies, following the force’s move to ban release of mental health information in background checks,” The Star reports. In the health records “snooping” case, Beamish is seeking charges following “some high-profile snooping cases, amid growing sentiment for changes to the provincial health privacy law,” the report states, noting his office “has opened files on 110 health privacy violations, of which eight have been deemed willful ‘snooping’ cases.” Separately, CBC reports a Quebec judge has ruled police violated a suspect’s privacy, resulting in the charges being dropped.
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