Ontario Privacy Commissioner: Privacy Rules Broken When Health Records Scattered in Streets
In Canada, Ontario's privacy commissioner has found a clinic and a paper-disposal company broke privacy rules after personal health records were strewn on a downtown movie set. The company mistakenly believed that the records picked up from the X-ray and ultrasound clinic were meant to be recycled, so it subcontracted the paper to another recycling company, which later sold it to a film company for use on its set. The health records then ended up being strewn across the streets of downtown Toronto as a backdrop for a film production.
Clinic, paper firm broke privacy rules, Canadian Press, October 31, 2005.
