After a complaint sparked an investigation, Prince Edward Island Privacy Commissioner Karen Rose discovered the province’s Worker’s Compensation Board had a total of 47 data breaches in four years, “an average of one per month,” CBCNews reports. “While Rose found the board had taken steps to prevent privacy breaches, she concluded they didn't go far enough,” the report states, with Rose suggesting that the agency better educate its employees about privacy, that the board create a privacy breach advisory committee and that the organization report back to Rose for two years. The Worker’s Compensation Board said in a statement that “it's committed to the protection of privacy and will use the commissioner's recommendations to further enhance protection,” the report states.
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