A Toronto Police badge is seen in this file photoMark Blinc
Ontario's privacy commissioner is no longer taking legal action against Toronto police over the sharing of attempted suicide-related information with U.S. border services.
The Information and Privacy Commissioner's office says it has withdrawn its case because the force has developed new procedures to better protect people's privacy.
It says the new measures restrict the disclosure of attempted suicide-related information to American border services through an RCMP database, while allowing "time-limited" public safety disclosures to police in Canada.
The measures also provide affected individuals with a right to seek early removal of their information from the Canadian Police Information Centre database.
The privacy commissioner's office had filed an application for judicial review with an Ontario court in 2014, asking for an order to stop the broad disclosure of suicide-related information to U.S. agencies through the database.
The issue had come under the national spotlight after an Ontario woman went public in 2013 with her story of being turned away by a U.S. customs agent at Toronto's Pearson airport because she had been hospitalized in June 2012 for clinical depression.