Canada · 14 d ago
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Hallway cameras could see inside Toronto apartments, privacy watchdog finds
105 Isabella St.
Toronto, Ontario
In June, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada found MetCap Living Management was inappropriately recording inside units at 105 Isabella St. Its hallway cameras caught parts of tenants' homes when doors opened.
The commissioner also found the company broke federal law by ignoring a tenant's request for his personal information and leaving its camera footage out of its privacy policy.
"It would have been easy to move the cameras five inches," said tenant Javier Ruiz-Soler, who began pressing the company for answers in late 2024.
— Javier Ruiz-Soler, tenant
Federal private-sector privacy law
PIPEDA
Under PIPEDA, the federal privacy law, the commissioner can only make recommendations, and enforcing them means a costly trip to Federal Court.
What we know
- Some camera angles were adjusted
- Parts of units were still visible in June
Not yet
- Whether the cameras have moved since June
MetCap, which manages more than 22,000 apartments, says it adjusted the camera angles, but the commissioner found in June that parts of apartments were still visible.
