Archive (Tag: safeguards)
Snooping in a Police Database
OIPC recently issued Investigation Report 123-2025 into a case where Constable Clinton Duquette of the Regina Police Service (RPS) snooped into the personal information of six individuals over a period of three years. The RPS is subject to The Local Authority Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (LA FOIP). Penalties for contravening LA... read more
Avoiding Abandoned Patient Records
After being with this office for more than 21 years, I had hoped that we had finished hearing about abandoned patient records. While there should never be a circumstance where patient records containing the personal health information of individuals are abandoned, such instances unfortunately continue to occur. There was a big push years ago to... read more
Protecting Your Personal Information in the Digital Age
Whether adding to your shopping cart from your laptop in a café, doom-scrolling social media on the bus ride home from the office, or engaging in work remotely, our online presences make us more vulnerable to invasions of our privacy. So, how can we protect ourselves from risks to our personal information in an era... read more
How has the Pandemic’s Seismic Shift to Increased Remote Work Affected Privacy?
A recent poll by a global market research and public opinion specialist – IPSOS, revealed that approximately 36% of people who worked from home during the pandemic anticipate a return to their offices on a regular basis in the near future. This means that more than half of paid employees expect a work-from-home environment to... read more