Andrew Lupton reports: Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner is investigating after a clear plastic bag containing documents with patient names and medication information was left at the curb outside a London walk-in clinic. One patient whose information was in the bag said she’s furious the papers weren’t shredded. Read more on CBC.
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Ca: ‘We feel terrible’: Vancouver tour company apologizes as privacy commissioner looks into breach
Penny Daflos reports: A tour company that organizes school field trips for B.C. students is apologizing for dumping personal information in the recycling bin of a sorting room where hundreds of Yaletown residents and others had access. Peter Meiszner, who lives in the residential area of the mixed-use building on Cambie Street, was stunned to…
IOM: Manx government loses home care residents’ personal data
BBC reports: Personal information belonging to dozens of vulnerable people receiving government-funded home care on the Isle of Man has been lost. Paper records of phone numbers, names and addresses of 33 adults had been “mislaid”, the Department of Health and Social Care admitted. Codes to access the keys to seven people’s homes were also…
Break-in at medical records centre behind discovery of personal files in Donegal park
There’s an update to a news story that was first reported in June. TheJournal.ie now reports that the HSE has admitted that there was a break-in involving storage containers at St. Conal’s medical facility close to Letterkenny University Hospital. According to the HSE, a lock on the container was smashed and an unknown number of…
AU: Queensland Health launches investigation after medical files found on busy Brisbane road
Josh Bavas reports: Queensland Health is investigating how a large parcel of patients’ medical documents, earmarked for destruction, were lost on a busy Brisbane road. A staff member came across the files last Thursday on Abbotsford Road in Bowen Hills, kilometres away from their home at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH). hey had…
Insurance company AIA fined $10,000 by PDPC for personal data breach
Lester Wong reports from Singapore: Insurance company AIA was fined $10,000 by the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) for mistakenly sending 245 letters meant for various customers to just two people due to a programming error in its software system that auto-generates the letters. The bulk of the letters (237) were premium notice letters for…