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   Over 41,000 Canadians affected by Canada Revenue Agency employees snooping   
   :CRA SOTW    
   						   
      
   CTVNews.ca Staff, with a report from Annie Bergeron-Oliver    
   Published Friday, February 1, 2019 10:02PM EST    
      
   The information of thousands of Canadians has been accessed inappropriately by   
   Canada Revenue Agency employees, CTV News has learned.   
      
   The CRA confirmed in a statement to CTV News that there were 264 privacy   
   breaches between Nov. 4, 2015 and Nov. 27, 2018.   
      
   They said that a total of 41,361 Canadians were impacted. Of those people,   
   37,502 were deemed to face a “low risk of injury” and weren’t contacted   
   by CRA.   
       
   The CRA said that it has notified 1,640 of the affected individuals and is in   
   the process of sending letters to 34 more.   
      
   “For a number of other reasons, 2,185 individuals were not notified,” the   
   CRA added, pointing out that some individuals were deceased or there was no   
   address available.   
      
   Conservative national revenue critic Pat Kelly said that it’s unacceptable   
   that information like a person’s income was accessed inappropriately.   
      
   The CRA said that 182 of the 264 CRA employees who accessed data without   
   authorization have been disciplined, 36 face a pending decision and 46 have   
   “left” the CRA.   
      
   Kelly said that Canadians need to know that CRA employees who improperly   
   access information will face proper consequences.   
      
   “They need to make clear that employees are disciplined or terminated when   
   they do inappropriately access information,” he added.   
      
   Tobi Cohen, a spokesperson for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, noted   
   that the office had conducted an audit of the CRA in 2013 and that the agency   
   claims to have “substantially or fully implemented all measures that we   
   recommended.”   
      
   “The Agency reported that it made several important improvements to its   
   management of personal information, including introducing new policies,   
   increasing corporate oversight and ensuring more timely assessment of privacy   
   and security risks,” Cohen    
   said.   
      
   “The fact that unauthorized/inappropriate access by employees is still   
   happening at all, despite the measures CRA has taken, remains an ongoing   
   concern,” Cohen added.   
      
   Deb Schulte, parliamentary secretary to the minister of National Revenue, said   
   the government takes the matter seriously and has invested $10 million on   
   prevention.   
      
   “We now have an enterprise fraud management system that reveals every time   
   someone is in where they shouldn’t be,” said Liberal MP Schulte. The   
   software was implemented in 2017.   
      
   “For us, one breach is too many,” she said.   
      
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