Saskatoon Library Collected Employee COVID Info Without Legal Authority: Privacy Commissioner

Saskatoon Library Collected Employee COVID Info Without Legal Authority: Privacy Commissioner
A health care worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a UHN COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Toronto on Jan. 7, 2021. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
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The Saskatchewan privacy commissioner has ruled that the Saskatoon Public Library (SPL) violated the Privacy Act by forcing employees to share their COVID-19 test results and personal medical data, even after the province lifted mandates. The commissioner additionally found the library used the information in violation of the Privacy Act.

“The Saskatoon Public Library did not have legislative authority to collect the Covid-19 test results,” Commissioner Ronald Kruzeniski said in an investigation report dated Jan. 16 and obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.