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By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 5 Minutes Read January 5, 2021

Ontario IPC seeks feedback for strategic priority setting

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) has recently invited stakeholders and the public to provide feedback regarding strategic priorities that it should focus on in order to respond to issues that Ontarians care most about in respect of access to information and privacy.

Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Business, Information Technology, Privacy / consultation, Information and Privacy Commissioner, ontario, private sector privacy legislation, strategic priority setting

By Adam Gorley | 5 Minutes Read August 24, 2015

Employee monitoring software an unnecessary violation of privacy

A municipality in British Columbia showed a “near-complete lack of awareness and understanding” of BC's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and made no effort to assess potential privacy violations when it implemented employee-monitoring software on the computers of a dozen high-level employees, including the mayor.

Article by Adam Gorley / Business, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Payroll, Privacy / British Columbia, consent, email filtering, employee monitoring, employee monitoring software, event log analysis, external audit, failure to obtain consent, FIPPA, firewall, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, Information and Privacy Commissioner, information audit, Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System, keystroke logging, legal compliance, Privacy audit, Privacy Commissioner, privacy management program, proactive security, reactive security, screenshot recording, Spector 360, user logs, web filtering

By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | < 1 Minutes Read August 11, 2011

Slaw: Using employee (patient) health information in human resources investigation

The Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner recently confirmed that Alberta Health Services (AHS) breached the rights of one of its employees by intentionally using information from his addiction counselling against him during a human resources investigation. The breach of the employee’s personal health information clearly contravened the Health Information Act (HIA).

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Privacy / addiction counselling, Alberta, Alberta Health Services, Data breach, Disability, disclosure of personal information, employment law, health information, human resources investigation, Information and Privacy Commissioner, personal health information, personal information

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