Mar 042018
March 4, 2018
Business, Non-U.S., Surveillance
Ben Spurr reports:
Metrolinx provided law enforcement agencies with Presto fare card users’ personal information 30 times in 2017, complying with roughly half of the requests made by officers.
In a first-of-its-kind report published Thursday, the regional transit agency detailed its response to all of the police applications for Presto information it received last year.
The public disclosure is part of an enhanced privacy policy Metrolinx adopted in December, after the Star revealed it had been quietly sharing Presto data with police.
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