Canada’s new foreign-influence registry breached China expert’s personal information

The Bureau: In an August 20 letter obtained by The Bureau, Public Safety Canada told Burton that the Office of the Foreign Influence Commissioner of Canada had mistakenly emailed the response to his registration submission to another person the day before. The letter called the error a privacy breach. It said the exposed information included Burton’s name, an administrative submission number and the office’s determination that his registration was ineligible…