Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Allison Jones
Publication Date: September 3, 2025 - 15:31
Ontario doctor fined for breaching privacy rules to offer circumcision services
September 3, 2025
Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner has ordered a Windsor doctor and his private clinic to pay thousands of dollars in fines for privacy breaches in a case she calls a “cautionary tale” for other health startups.
Commissioner Patricia Kosseim wrote in a recent decision that a doctor with privileges at Windsor Regional Hospital used his electronic health record access there to look for parents of newborn boys and contact them to offer circumcisions at a clinic he partly owns.
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