CHR laptop with sensitive data stolen
Alberta?s privacy watchdog is fast-tracking a probe into the theft from a private home of a Calgary Health Region laptop holding mental health data on hundreds of child patients.
On Oct. 22, the computer was taken in a break-in at the northwest home of a CHR Collaborative Mental Health staffer.
The laptop was carrying contact, mental health and parental data on 1,000 Calgary-area children up to six years of age.
Wayne Wood with the office of the information and privacy commissioner said the seriousness of the theft is being handled urgently.
?This investigation is being fast-tracked because of the sensitivity of the information contained on that laptop,? he said.
