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“Privacy is the interest that individuals have in sustaining a ‘personal space’, free from interference by other people and organizations”[i] and it’s “about the integrity of the individual”[ii]. These are broad working definitions of privacy which Roger Clarke has used for decades. If we agree that privacy is related to the individual who also has…

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…

You have Rights to Access! Here’s how to do it. FOIP Under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIP) Act, you are permitted to ask for access to any record, including your own personal information under the control of a public body. Each public body has a FOIP representative who is responsible for…

Each waking moment of each day, most of us leave a trail of data behind, like breadcrumbs but not for cute fairytale purposes, rather the opposite, for others to collect, combine with other data, analyse, alter and even sell- all without your consent and often without your knowledge. In January 2020, the Office of the…

The ‘Spirit of the Act’ can be found in the interpretation and decision making process as well as the Purpose of the Access to Information Act (ATIA), which is “to extend the law of Canada to provide a right of access according to the principles that government information should be available to the public and…