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Ca: Some 5,600 privacy breaches in federal government in 2014: documents

Posted on March 24, 2015 by Dissent

Bea Vongdouuangchanh reports:

There were 5,600 privacy breaches in the federal government in 2014, affecting almost 44,000 individuals, according to data ministers tabled in the House of Commons on March 23.

According to the 2013 (sic) annual report from the privacy commissioner, there were 426 complaints received. This includes all complaints from departments and the public. The 5,600 privacy breaches are all internal departmental investigations, of which only the 255 were referred to the Privacy Commissioner’s Office.

Read more on The Hill Times.

Of note, none of the breaches reportedly resulted in criminal activity.

The media report also includes a breach not previously noted on this site:

At National Defence, there were 11 breaches that affected 30,642 individuals, of which one was reported to the Privacy Commissioner’s Office, which affected 30,632 people. This large breach “involved basic information about CAF members” which was “low risk,” but personal.

The information breached were names, employee ID numbers and payments made by members to various charitable organizations, military messes, insurance companies, and financial service companies, wrote Conservative MP James Bezan (Selkirk-Interlake, Man.), Parliamentary secretary to the National Defence minister. This information was accessible to the public between April and October 2014.

Someone want to go through the 469-page report to see what other breaches we didn’t know about that should be included in research databases? Where does one even find the report?

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2 thoughts on “Ca: Some 5,600 privacy breaches in federal government in 2014: documents”

  1. Anonymous says:
    March 24, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    Found the 2013-2014 annual report:
    https://www.priv.gc.ca/information/ar/201314/201314_pa_e.asp#heading-0-0-1

    But this doesn’t seem to match the data shown in The Hill Times. I see nothing else.

    1. Dissent says:
      March 25, 2015 at 7:47 am

      Thanks, but that appears to be a different report. The report described in The Hill Times was over 500 pages; this one is 61 pages.

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