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Illegal pot dispensary customers fume over email privacy breach

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Dissent

Jacquie Miller reports:

Who’s shopping at Ottawa’s largest local marijuana dispensary chain? That information has been widely shared after Magna Terra Health Services accidentally sent an email to nearly 500 “clients and friends” that listed all their email addresses.

Some Magna Terra customers who want to keep their medical marijuana purchases private are upset.

Magna Terra president Franco Vigile sent a second email apologizing for the privacy breach and saying the employee responsible for the original email sent Sept. 30 had been let go.

Read more on Ottawa Citizen.

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