We have been receiving inquiries this week regarding what types of personal health information employees need to disclose to their employers during a Public Health Emergency. As organizations are working to establish new tools, protocols, procedures and processes for the crisis while in the midst of it, it is important to know how to balance…
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…
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…
I was introduced to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in September 2016 when I called to inquire about how to submit a privacy breach complaint. Since 2016, I have gotten to know the OIPC like a good friend. However, as the majority of my dozen complaints against Alberta’s only health authority, Alberta…
Privacy Breaches are happening more and more often and today, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) released another notice to Albertans which potentially affects 21,670 people who trusted their personal health information was secure. Find notice here Privacy Breaches are not easy to navigate or talk about, but when your name, address, email, logins,…
According to your emotional response, yes and if your personal health information has been breached according to the Health Information Act (HIA), you are a victim. However, despite recent surcharges being applied to offenders fines’ by Court of Queens’ Bench, victims of Health Information breaches do not qualify as a victim under the Criminal Code,…