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New Lesson Plans for Educators: Privacy Rights, Digital Literacy and Online Safety

Today, Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial privacy authorities jointly released a set of lesson plans designed for educators to teach students about privacy rights, digital literacy and online safety. These publications support a resolution by international privacy regulators calling for...

Published on Jun 18, 2018

2017 Annual Report: Thirty Years of Access and Privacy Service

2017 was a milestone year for the Office of the information and Privacy Commissioner, one in which my office proudly celebrated 30 years of service on behalf of all Ontarians. Today I was pleased to release our 2017 Annual Report, Thirty Years of Access and Privacy Service, in which I call for a...

Published on Jun 14, 2018

New IPC Document: Fees, Fee Estimates and Fee Waivers

Institutions under FIPPA and MFIPPA are permitted to charge fees for handling requests to access government records. Today, the IPC released an updated guidance document, Fees, Fee Estimates and Fee Waivers. A number of important orders and court decisions have been issued since the guide was first...

Published on Jun 11, 2018

Moving Toward New Access and Privacy Rights for Children, Youth and Families

Today, the Child, Youth and Family Services Act became law in Ontario. The proclamation of the act is another important step on the journey toward establishing an access and privacy framework for the child, youth and family services sector. Part X of the new law, which governs personal information...

Published on Apr 30, 2018

Protecting Privacy in the Smart City

There’s a new sensor on the block. Or at least there could be, if you’re living in the urban jungle of a smart city. For those not familiar with it, smart city is a term to describe a community that uses connected technologies to collect and analyze data to improve services for citizens. An example...

Published on Apr 27, 2018

Commissioner Coming to Hamilton - May 11

The Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) will host a special event in Hamilton on Friday, May 11, at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Centre, West 5th Campus. This event is part of the IPC’s Reaching Out to Ontario program. Commissioner Brian Beamish, along with executives from the IPC, will update...

Published on Apr 6, 2018

More than Numbers: Access is About Accountability

We’ve got stats on the brain here at the IPC. Institutions from across the province have submitted to us their annual reports summarizing stats on the freedom of information (FOI) requests they received last year. Thanks to everyone who got these to us on time. While it might be tempting to get...

Published on Apr 3, 2018

Disposing of Your Electronic Media

Ontario’s public institutions and health information custodians are required to take reasonable steps to safeguard personal information from the time of collection to the point of destruction. This means that personal information that is stored on digital media or devices must be securely destroyed...

Published on Mar 6, 2018

Privacy is not a Barrier to Releasing Non-Identifying Statistics

A particularly rough influenza season this year has contributed to a healthy interest in statistical information related to flu outbreaks. The public wants to know how serious the flu-threat is in their community, a risk often measured by the number of local flu-related deaths. Recently, our office...

Published on Feb 27, 2018

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