Canadian privacy laws contain a basic safeguarding principle: access to personal information may only be granted on a need-to-know basis. Snooping violates that principle.
Several Ontario arbitrators have upheld a “zero tolerance” approach for #privacy breaches at hospitals, holding that summary dismissal is the appropriate remedy for deliberate breaches of confidentiality and workplace codes of conduct by hospital employees who snoop into patient records for their own reasons, rather than for any legitimate purpose. Read More
