On January 28, 2025, the IPC had the pleasure of hosting Ontarians at a public event in celebration of Data Privacy Day. The theme was the Power of PETs: Privacy Enhancing Technologies. A recording of the event is available on our YouTube channel and my opening remarks, for those of you interested
A social engineering attack at a TDSB high school led to the unauthorized access of personal information belonging to current and former students, parents and staff across several schools. The threat actor gained unauthorized access to the affected schools’ systems by obtaining the login credentials
This publication outlines the key obligations of police under privacy legislation in their use of ALPR systems. This is an update of the guidance document originally published in 2017, and provides recommendations, including best practices, on using these systems in a privacy-protective manner
Tuesday, January 28, 2025 9:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. EST Toronto ( MaRS Discovery District ) and online Join Commissioner Kosseim for a panel discussion with privacy experts from the public and private sectors, academia, and law to gain a clearer understanding of what privacy enhancing technologies are
From unlocking smartphones to solving crimes, facial recognition technologies are re-shaping identification as we know it. In this episode, we peer into the privacy and human rights implications of facial recognition systems with technology and human rights lawyer Cynthia Khoo.
On September 11, 2023, the IPC provided a submission to the Ministry of the Solicitor General as part of the Five-Year Review of the Police Record Checks Reform Act, 2015. The submission includes eight recommendations on how the police record check regime can be improved to better balance the
Almost everyone with an email or instant messaging account has become used to receiving a seemingly never-ending stream of unsolicited messages. Commonly known as spam, some of these messages are “phishing attempts” where the intended goal is to get the recipient to do something that compromises
