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Halifax regional school board has called in the Nova Scotia privacy commissioner
after a potential privacy breach was reported Monday. (JAY LAPRETE / AP)
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HALIFAX—The Halifax regional school board has called in the province's privacy
commissioner after a potential privacy breach was reported Monday with an online
registration system.
The board shut down registration for its Excel after-school program for elementary
students after some users reported they could see other people's personal information,
including medical data.
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time period, and all of them have been noed of the potential breach.
Meanwhile, Nova Scotia's auditor general agreed Monday to investigate an earlier
privacy breach.
On April 11, Halifax police arrested a 19 -year-old man after the government confirme
that about 7,000 documents were inappropriately accessed through the province's
freedom -of -information internet portal between March 3 and March 5. 1
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