Describe how information access principals are emerging in non-governmental sectors. Once the public has lost trust in their government or in the non-governmental sector, it is difficult to restore stakeholder and investor confidence. Loss of trust can be accomplished in many ways, such as, poor access and privacy culture[i] at an organizational level. Information access…
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…
The COVID-19 pandemic has required clinics and patients to make many changes. Some physicians have added video consultations as a way to interact with their patients, some converted from paper based files to electronic record systems, and some began requiring clinic access to Netcare to access patient records remotely. If you made any of the…
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…
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…
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…