The Privacy Commissioner has taken the unusual step of publicly censuring a Whanganui drilling company, TD Drilling, for not only failing to protect the confidentiality of information provided by an employee about drug use among its staff, but also losing much of the employee’s personal records. The company had already been ordered to pay its former employee, David Crichton, $22,115 after the Employment Relations Authority found that TD Drilling’s actions had led to Crichton’s constructive dismissal by failing to provide a safe workplace after he revealed a culture of substance abuse among fellow workers.