OSC Breaches Privacy Policy, Sells Data

A report by Global News revealed the Ontario Cannabis Store—contrary to its privacy policy promise not to use or share customer data—has been selling customers' postal-code data to LPs.

• A former Ontario privacy commissioner called the revelation "appalling."
• An OCS spokesperson defended the program as providing valuable sales information to LPs to help them "evolve and improve their product offerings."
• Noting the information came as a result of a refusal of an access-to-information . . .
  

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