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Company faces privacy probe into health records found on Ottawa street

Posted on December 31, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

 

Ontario’s privacy commissioner is launching an investigation into how patients’ sensitive medical records ended up being blown around a downtown Ottawa street Wednesday.

Ann Cavoukian said she alerted CML Healthcare immediately after hearing that an Ottawa man had found the papers on O’Connor Street, outside a medical centre housing a CML medical imaging clinic.

Read more on CBC News


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