Collection
Privacy Reports
Date
File Numbers
MR16-6
Adjudicators
Trish Coyle
Decision Type
Privacy Complaint Report
Applicable Legislation
MFIPPA - 2(1)
MFIPPA - 32
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) was contacted by Innisfil Hydro Distribution Systems Limited (Innpower) to report a privacy breach under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act). Innpower informed the IPC that the laptop of one of its contractors had been stolen from a university library and that the laptop contained the unencrypted personal information of its customers. Given that the unencrypted personal information was disclosed by way of a theft, the disclosure was not consistent with section 32 of the Act. This report finds that Innpower responded adequately to the breach.