While Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) came into force more than a decade ago, "it has resulted in zero completed prosecutions,” The Toronto Star reports, noting Ryerson University Privacy and Big Data Institute Executive Director Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s former commissioner, is among those who disagree with the government’s stance on PHIPA. She said the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner “possesses the strongest expertise to determine whether there has been a breach of PHIPA—greater than the police.” Meanwhile, Spor considers privacy concerns in research that uses health data.
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