Toronto man raises security alarm after getting strangers' COVID-19 test details
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Christopher Seminerio felt uneasy about providing his personal information to a private testing company so he could cross the Peace Bridge into Fort Erie, Ont. from the U.S. in August, but says he didn't have a choice if wanted to return home.
Seminerio, a salesman for a tech company who lives in Toronto, already provided the border officer proof of COVID-19 vaccination and that he'd travelled to New York for work reasons, plus a negative PCR test result within 72 hours.
But he was still required to go to a nearby racetrack parking lot, enter his name, address, birth date and passport, health card and cellphone numbers into the Switch Health app and undergo the additional swab, he said.
"I think this testing requirement was unneeded, but also the fact that I had to provide all this information was not something that I was comfortable with," Seminerio told CBC News.
Seminerio said only then was he allowed to enter Canada. A few days later on Aug. 13, he received his negative COVID-19 test result from the Toronto-based company called Switch Health and continued on with his summer, not using the service again.
Last week, however, he unexpectedly received an email from Switch Health saying his test result was available. Confused, he logged into the app.
There he found another person's test order and results but with all the personal information he'd entered for his own test months earlier. He'd also been sent a second person's test order with their birth date, but his health card and passport numbers and contact details.
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