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Libraries are a great place to get your information from! So, when I found myself online requesting holds on books to borrow this week, I pursued their website pleased to find a new ‘IT Blurb’ section. Blurb #1 is dedicated to creating a strong password and Blurb #2  advocated for the beneficial use of Anti-virus…

What is Screen-Free Week? Get Ready Edmonton for Screen-Free Week!  Annually, children are invited to experiences beyond their personal devices to play and explore, even rediscover the joy  which can be found additional to ‘entertainment screens’. Entertainment screens are those used to play games, ‘Netflix and chill’, or just to scroll. During the first week…

Personal Information of a natural person (i.e. not a corporation, union, association, partnership, or charity) can include photographs, business email addresses, employee identification number, computer IP address, and customers in store behaviour. Found in Schedule 1 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) are the ten fair information principles which were extracted from…

“What records do you want to access?” Asks the ‘FOIP: Request to Access Information’ form found here. The ultimate question is whether a reasonable person would be able to retrieve a  record after reviewing the specific details provided in the request. In 2018, I was a member of the public at a Right to Know forum,…

I can relate to Robert Ellis Smith’s definition of privacy Specifically, the free from intrusion phrase, as he defined privacy as, “The desire by each of us for physical space where we can be free of interruption, intrusion, embarrassment or accountability, and the attempt to control the time and manner of disclosures of personal information…