MC-040015-1

The Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario received a complaint under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act), regarding the City of Greater Sudbury (the City) and specifically that the City had contracted Greater Sudbury Utilities, formerly Sudbury Hydro (the Utility) to provide billing services for the City’s water/waste customers. The complainant stated that he had been informed by the Utility that the City had retained it to provide billing services to its water and waste customers. The complainant alleged that he had not consented to the City sharing his personal financial information to a third party. The complainant questioned the City’s statutory authority for disclosing his personal information to the Utility.

• MFIPPA
• 32(c)
• 2(1)

• purpose for which it was obtained or compiled