News that there have been more privacy breaches in Nova Scotia has the opposition again crying foul. The province says there have been 11 new instances of what it calls “unusual activity” on Nova Scotia’s freedom-of-information website.
This newest breach involved the download of almost 900 of the same documents accessed in the breach previously reported on April 11. PC MLA Chris d’Entremont, the Opposition House Leader, says the government must be more transparent.
“They need to work with Nova Scotians, and they need to bring them up-to-date on what’s actually going on, and I think that doing that by press release is probably not the best way of going about doing it.”
In a release, the NDP’s spokesperson for Internal Services, Dave Wilson, said Premier Stephen McNeil and his government need to acknowledge the system in place wasn’t good enough and tell people what is being done to fix it.
In the newest press release, the government says the latest cases did not involve new information and no additional Nova Scotians were impacted.
