Archive (Year: 2016)
Lost in the Shuffle: Ensuring Information is Accessible After a Government Re-organization
Recently, the Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued Review Report 178-2016. This report addresses a situation where the Applicant requested e-mails from an area of government that had recently been shuffled in a government re-organization. The new Ministry provided the Applicant with a fee estimate. The e-mails had not been properly archived when transferred to... read more
Fax vs. E-mail – Weighing the Fax!
Over the summer, some of us at the IPC were discussing the merits of fax and e-mail and how well these technologies protect privacy. So I wrote the original version of this blog to weigh in on which “technology” has better safeguards: e-mail or fax. We’ve heard that this has generated a lot of discussion. ... read more
Breaching Privacy Breaches
“But that is not a privacy breach.” Occasionally as an Early Resolution Officer I am met with this response when delivering the news that our office will be opening a privacy breach investigation file. This got me to thinking about the perception of privacy breaches. When we hear “privacy breach” we often associate it with... read more
When the Media Calls
Just the other day, a journalist called me and asked whether a review had been started on a particular request for information. I indicated to him that a request for review had been received. I indicated it was the policy of this office, to confirm or not that a request for review had been received... read more