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Patients involved in Nova Scotia mass shooting among those caught up in major privacy breach

Posted on February 10, 2023 by Dissent

Bill Dicks reports:

Nova Scotia Health is under the microscope after eight employees were found snooping into medical records.

The privacy breaches involve the electronic health records of people associated with the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, among others.

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner says the discoveries were made by Nova Scotia Health after it proactively monitored employees’ access to the records of those involved in or related to the mass shooting.

The health authority did publicly admit to a privacy breach back on Aug. 4, 2020, but did not give specifics, including how it involved those connected to the shootings in Portapique, N.S.

Read more at CTV.

CTV reports that no charges will be filed against the employees because there is a 12-month window from catching the employees and filing charges and too much time went by.

Compare that to a recent incident in Taiwan that had me impressed with how quickly an incident was handled:

Maybe Nova Scotia Health can learn a few things from Taiwan about getting investigations done quickly.

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