In April 2021, a hospital employee at a COVID screening station allegedly took photographs of a visitor to the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, after a dispute over the facility’s mask policy.
The “screener” also tried to get the licence plate number of the hospital visitor, who never entered the hospital past the reception desk, according to the employee’s email sent to a supervisor following the incident.
A complaint was lodged by the visitor, who has not been named, and on Dec. 5, 2022, the Privacy Commissioner for the Northwest Territories, Andrew Fox, found that the hospital employee took “action [that] was inappropriate for an employee of a public body,” in breach of the Privacy Act….