NWT Privacy Commissioner Upholds Privacy Rights After Hospital Worker’s Alleged Photo of Visitor in Mask Dispute

NWT Privacy Commissioner Upholds Privacy Rights After Hospital Worker’s Alleged Photo of Visitor in Mask Dispute
Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, N.W.T., is shown on Aug. 23, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Emily Blake
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In April 2021, a hospital employee at a COVID screening station allegedly took photographs of a visitor to the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, after a dispute over the facility’s mask policy.

The “screener” also tried to get the licence plate number of the hospital visitor, who never entered the hospital past the reception desk, according to the employee’s email sent to a supervisor following the incident.