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Report: Ontario Government Offers Subpar Data Protection

A provincially commissioned report says the Ontario government is not doing enough to protect the personal information it gathers on citizens. The review, conducted by Deloitte & Touche, acknowledges that the government has taken several steps to beef up privacy protection since a major accidental leak of social insurance numbers last fall.

Government not doing enough to protect private data: report, London Free Press, August 21, 2005.