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Metrolinx gave Presto users’ personal info to police 30 times last year

Posted on March 4, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

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.

Read more on Toronto Star.

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