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The office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario (the IPC) received a privacy complaint under the
The privacy complaint has two elements. First, the complainant has stated that his personal information was collected by the school and placed in his child’s Ontario Student Record (OSR). The complainant states that the principal placed a copy of a family court transcript, a photograph of the complainant, and a short letter from the complainant’s ex-spouse’s lawyer, in his child’s OSR in 1998. The complainant indicates that his ex-spouse’s lawyer sent this information to the school. The complainant states that he was not notified that the school was collecting these documents and photograph nor was he given any notice that the school was maintaining this information in his child’s OSR. The complainant only became aware of these documents being held by the Board as a result of his request to view the contents of his child’s OSR.
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