A man said he lost his job and struggled to obtain housing after a debt management company wrongly associated his name with another person's debts.
The man's two-year struggle to have the mistake corrected is described in a recent decision from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner John Edwards.
Neither the man nor company are named in the decision.
The man learned of the error in 2018 when a utility company declined to service his property because of debt against his name.