CA Ontario Disability Support Program 2015 Technical Error (Q15959)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | CA Ontario Disability Support Program 2015 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2015
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The Liberal government is blaming a misdialed fax machine for a privacy breach affecting hundreds of Ontario Disability Support Program recipients. We have taken steps to ensure that this situation will not occur again and have also arranged for additional staff training on managing ministry records and documents, says a statement from Community and Social Services Minister Helena Jaczeks office, noting information of 500 disability recipients was on the errant fax. The privacy breach was raised by NDP MPP Monique Taylor (Hamilton Mountain), who demanded answers after receiving complaints from constituents informed by letter that their personal information on their March payments had been sent in error to a private law firm. This is just another example in a pattern of privacy breaches at (English)
