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By Devan Marr | 3 Minutes Read April 17, 2020

PHIPA & privacy: Beware the rogue departing employee

A recent decision by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario involving a medical clinic highlights the importance of having written job duties and policies regarding the protection of patient personal health information.

Article by Devan Marr / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Privacy / Breach of privacy, employment law, health information, Job descriptions, PHIPA, privacy, record retention

By SpringLaw | 3 Minutes Read August 8, 2019

Workplace data theft – Protect your company with best practices

The Capital One Data Breach has been big news lately, and for good reason. It’s a big deal. This breach compromised the data of over 100 million Capital One customers. Instead of a shadowy overseas hacker or a creepy crawler from the dark web, the hacker was a former employee of the cloud hosting company through which Capital One stored their data.

Article by SpringLaw / Employee Relations, Privacy / Capital One data breach, data governance, data theft, employment law, Personal Health Information Protection Act, personal information, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PHIPA, privacy compliance practices, private data storage

By SpringLaw | 2 Minutes Read August 16, 2017

PHIPA fines in the workplace

This spring the largest penalty to date was issued under Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). A social work student was convicted of accessing personal health information without authorization, and ordered pay a $20,000 fine and a $5,000 victim fine surcharge.

Article by SpringLaw / Employee Relations, Privacy / common law tort for invasion of privacy, digitized workplace, employment law, invasion of privacy, Personal Health Information Protection Act, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PHIPA, PIPEDA, privacy, Privacy Act

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