Privacy breaches by the federal government are at “an all-time high,” Ottawa Citizen reports. According to data for six government departments, there were 5,237 privacy breaches reported in 2014—“almost as many as had been reported in the previous 11-year period,” the report states. Meanwhile, CBC reports on instances in Newfoundland and Labrador of sensitive data ending up in the wrong hands, and of a case of patient privacy violations through the use of an information screen in Prince Edward Island. And in Ontario, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner “is calling for the two health professionals who allegedly snooped into former mayor Rob Ford's medical records to face prosecution,” Toronto Star reports.
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