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Ontario’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner would like to see more prosecutions when healthcare workers snoop on patient files, but a survey reveals hospitals do not automatically alert police in snooping cases and are inconsistent in how they handle privacy violations, reports The Star. Former Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian points to the Office of the Attorney General's lack of prosecution of Personal Health Information and Privacy Act (PHIPA) cases. In the 11 years of PHIPA, there have been two attempts at prosecution, the report states. Cavoukian also questions whether law enforcement is necessary in the process, noting “it is clear that the expertise on determining whether there has been a breach of PHIPA lies with the commissioner's office.”
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