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Ca: Tax workers continue to peek at forbidden files: internal reports

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Dissent

Dean Beeby reports:

Canada Revenue Agency workers continue to poke into the confidential tax files of friends and foes, despite assurances to Canada’s privacy commissioner that the chronic problem of unauthorized access is being fixed.

The 34 significant privacy breaches reported by the CRA to the commissioner in 2014 show all but two were deliberately committed by the agency’s own employees — and the files indicate no worker was fired or reported to police.

Read more on CBC News.

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