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Ca: Vets ombudsman asks for privacy probe after personal information accessed

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

Murray Brewster reports:

Canada’s Veteran’s ombudsman says he’s asking the country’s privacy watchdog to investigate why his Veterans Affairs file was access hundreds of times.

Pat Stogran says he believes private information in those records may have been inappropriately used, much like what happened to another outspoken critic of the department.

Sean Bruyea, who prior to Stogran’s appointment in 2007 was the face of veterans issues, last week revealed that portions of his medical and psychiatric reports ended up in a briefing note to Greg Thompson, the former veterans minister. His file was accessed 648 times by bureaucrats within the department, including policy planners with no connection to his treatment or pension.

Read more in the Winnipeg Free Press.

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