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Clinical Depression and Ann Cavoukian

Ann Cavoukian: Ann Cavoukian said Monday that some Ontario police services routinely uploaded attempted suicide calls to the Canadian Police Information Centre to which U.S. border guards and the FBI have access. , according to CBC. Ellen Richardson was turned away at Toronto's Pearson airport by U.S. customs agents because she was hospitalized in June 2012 for clinical depression. Ontarios privacy commissioner has discovered that the mental-health information of some Canadians is accessible to the FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. Cavoukian began investigating how U.S. law enforcement had access to such personal information after last fall's news that some Canadian travellers with a history of mental-health issues had been denied entry into the U.S. Canadian woman refused U.S. entry because of depression Canadians with mental illnesses denied U.S. entry (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.