Joint Federal Provincial Territorial Letter to Minister of Infrastructure and Communities on Smart Cities Challenge … Joint Federal Provincial Territorial Letter to Minister of Infrastructure and Communities on Smart Cities …
Disposing of Your Electronic Media … This fact sheet provides guidance on how Ontario public institutions and health information custodians can securely destroy personal information when disposing of electronic media. … Disposing of Your Electronic …
Fact Sheet: Reasonable Search … This fact sheet answers some frequently asked questions about reasonable searches for records. … Fact Sheet: Reasonable …
Open Government and Protecting Privacy … The IPC strongly supports Open Government initiatives and encourages Ontario institutions to be more open and transparent, and to enhance their engagement with the public. This document offers guidance for institutions on how to move towards increased …
PHIPA Practice Direction #2: Responding to a Request for Access to Personal Health Information … PHIPA Practice Direction #2: Responding to a Request for Access to Personal Health …
PHIPA Practice Direction #1: Clarifying Access Requests … In Ontario, individuals have a right to request access to their health information pursuant to the Personal Health Information Protection Act . This Practice Direction provides clarification to assist health information custodians when they …
Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Schedule 2 of Bill 59, Putting Consumers First Act, 2016 … Commissioner Brian Beamish submitted comments to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 59, Schedule 2 of Bill 59, Putting Consumers First Act , 2016. The Bill includes …
Big Data and Your Privacy Rights … The emergence of big data as a tool to manage and analyze large and complex data sets offers great promise and opportunity, but also raises serious privacy challenges and considerations, especially to personal privacy. Public and health sector institutions …
Letter to the Speaker Regarding Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change Submission of False FOI Compliance Statistics … Letter from Commissioner Brian Beamish to the Honourable Dave Levac, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario regarding the Ministry of the Environment and Climate …
Fact Sheet: Video Surveillance … This fact sheet highlights the important factors an institution must consider before implementing a video surveillance system. … Fact Sheet: Video …
Improving Access and Privacy with Records and Information Management … This guidance is designed to help institutions implement better record and information management practices and enhance the public’s ability to access information. … Improving Access and Privacy with Records and Information …
Fact Sheet: What is Personal Information? … This fact sheet explains the meaning of the term “personal information,” and answers frequently asked questions. … Fact Sheet: What is Personal …
Your Business is Affected by a Freedom of Information Request: What You Should Know … This fact sheet outlines what to expect when an institution contacts you about an access request, your options for appeal, and other frequently asked questions. This document is part of a series designed to keep …
Open Government: Key Implementation Considerations … This guidance document provides institutions with an overview of important factors to consider when implementing Open Government including the need for institutional leadership, commitment, governance and resources to support culture change and …
Open Government: Key Concepts and Benefits … This guidance paper is intended as a starting point for institutions considering Open Government and highlights two critical goals: enhancing access to government-held information and public participation. It includes a discussion about making …
Statement from the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario on Supreme Court decision not to release mandate letters … Patricia Kosseim, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision that the government …
De-identification Guidelines for Structured Data … This document highlights the key issues to consider when de-identifying personal information in the form of structured data and it provides a step-by-step process that institutions can follow when removing personal information from data sets. … …
