Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Potts apologizes to Privacy Commissioner

A senior administrator at the Health Sciences Centre is saying sorry to the Privacy Commissioner. Scott Potts says there was no intention on the hospital's part to not tell Ann Cavoukian about the private health records that were found blowing around on a city street last week.   He says if it was the expectation of her office to have been contacted about the situation earlier the hospital apologizes for that.    While there is no legal requirement to tell the Privacy Commissioner, Cavoukian was upset she had to learn about the story through media reports