CBC News reports Alberta Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton will investigate a letter sent to an Indigenous teenager from Alberta Health Services. A 15-year-old girl received a letter from AHS addressed to “Treaty Indian.” AHS claims the letter was an “inexcusable” data entry error. Clayton will examine whether AHS violated the province’s Health Information Act and the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act. “I think Albertans deserve to know whether this is a systemic problem or if, as AHS says, is in fact a one-off,” said Alberta Party MLA Greg Clark, who sent the request to Clayton. “When something like this happens, we deserve full transparency over what happened and making sure that the systems are in place to know that it will never happen again.”
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