Consultation – federal Directive on Automated Decision Making

Life Labs investigation report, Ontario and BC

Privacy cases summarized – Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

Ontario’s IPC has podcast on indigenous data prospectives

Canada’s privacy Commissioner investigates CRA

Ontario IPC issues digital charter for schools

Tag: FOIP

September 26, 2024 - Ron Kruzeniski, Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner

Contracting with Governments (updated)

Government, whether municipal or provincial, charge taxes and spend those taxes on services we need. By government I mean at all levels and includes school boards, universities, colleges and health regions. All of them enter into contracts with service providers. I generally believe that if you contract with an entity which uses tax dollars, your... read more

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September 3, 2024 - Sherri Fowler, Manager of Intake

Elections and Responding to Access to Information Requests

In Canada, we are fortunate to live in a democratic society where citizens are able to express their wishes of who governs us through our right to vote. By living in a democratic society, citizens are able to ask questions and exercise their access to information rights to ensure elected officials and provincial and municipal... read more

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April 8, 2024 - Ron Kruzeniski, Information and Privacy Commissioner

Providing a Record in the Format Requested by the Applicant

Applicants often request records in a format which is convenient for their use i.e., paper, word spreadsheet, Excel or comma-separated values (CSV) or pdf. I find that public bodies are comfortable providing records in paper format but when it comes to electronic formats, they lean toward a pdf format. It appears they believe that the... read more

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April 4, 2024 - Ron Kruzeniski, Information and Privacy Commissioner

Duty to Assist – Ask, What Do You Need?

The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP) and The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (LA FOIP) since 2018, have a section on the duty to assist, it provides as follows: 5.1(1) Subject to this Act and the regulations, a government institution shall respond to a written request... read more

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