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Ca: Department Failed To Follow Directive Following Privacy Breach: Molloy

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Dissent

Oh …. (insert your preferred three-letter acronym). VOCM reports from St. John’s, NL:

The privacy commissioner has found a government department not only committed a privacy breach, but that it failed to follow a subsequent directive from the commissioner.

Donovan Molloy says the Department of Transportation and Works relocated a number of paper records to its depot in Grand Falls-Windsor. The records, containing sensitive personal information, were stored in an unsecured area accessible to all employees and members of the public.

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