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Dozens of B.C. Health‑care Workers Snooped on Lapu Lapu Festival Victims’ Medical Records: OIPC Report
An investigation found 71 privacy breaches by 36 health-care workers accessing records of 16 victims after the Lapu-Lapu Day attack, prompting discipline and nine recommendations.
- On Wednesday, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia published a report finding 71 snooping incidents by 36 health-care workers into Vancouver records.
- By April 30, health-care workers reported the first breach, with additional reports arriving on May 30 and June 20; most snooping was driven by curiosity, the report found.
- Discipline ranged from written warnings to termination for 36 health-care workers, including 15 nurses, 13 administrative support staff, and one assistant in a physician's office.
- They implemented audits, confidential flags, memos, suspended access and expedited audit solutions, calling breaches unacceptable while patients who were notified rejected initial arguments against notification, the information commissioner said.
- The report includes nine recommendations such as privacy training, automated auditing, real-time monitoring, and stronger discipline to deter snooping, said B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael Harvey.
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British Columbia's privacy commissioner has found 16 people who were sent to medical facilities after the deadly vehicle-ramming attack at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver last year had their privacy breached by health workers.
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Three dozen health-care professionals were caught “snooping” into the medical records of people who were patients in the aftermath of the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy in Vancouver last year, according to a new report by B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner.
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