OTTAWA – The Privacy commissioner will investigate a “shocking” potential privacy breach that made the personal information of dozens of Canada Revenue Agency whistleblowers available to all for months via public court documents.
“Our office has opened an investigation into whether the provisions of the Privacy Act were contravened with respect to this matter,” Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) spokesperson Vito Pilieci said in a statement to the National Post Tuesday.
The investigation comes as a response to a request from Conservative MP James Bezan last week and on the heels of media reports that private information of dozens of CRA employees who have made allegations against their employer found their way into publicly available documents as part of unrelated legal proceedings at the federal court in the winter.
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