Did you use to work for the Canadian Paliament in 2009? Well, you might have my T4 slip in your mail box. Big f’ing whoops.
From Montreal Gazette:
The glitch affected 697 former staffers of members of Parliament in 2009 who received a T4 tax form last month that belonged to somebody else.
Government House leader Jay Hill said the mix-up likely occurred when lists of former employees were incorrectly merged with addresses prior to the mailout by the human resources department.
“It was an inadvertent human error,” Hill said. “I often wonder when people sit and stare at these computer screens all day why there aren’t a lot more errors like this.”
Wow. There is an unfortunate point of view from the government. I hope they don’t mean this to absolve them of this privacy breach. This only leads me to suspect that we will see more screw ups like this.
I have a serious difficulty with the government investigating itself on a privacy matter like this.
For more read on.
NB: thanks and a hat tip to @wintr. I missed this one when it was released
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