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PO-4600

PO-4600 … An individual seeks access under the Act to a copy of an arbitrator’s decision relating to the termination of an identified college professor. The ministry refused to confirm or deny the existence of the record. In this order, the adjudicator upholds the ministry’s decision, accepting …

Decisions

- Published on February 20, 2025

PO-4601

PO-4601 … The appellant sought access to certain records of a specific lawyer that related to an investigation of him. The ministry granted the appellant access to some of the records responsive to his access request. It denied access to information and records that it claimed were solicitor-client …

Decisions

- Published on February 20, 2025

PO-4602

PO-4602 … A journalist made a request to the Ministry of Health (the ministry) for access to patient-level granular billing information for all Ontario physicians who billed for one million dollars or more during a specified time-period. The ministry denied access to the requested information on …

Decisions

- Published on February 20, 2025

PO-4603-I

PO-4603-I … An appellant sought access to a copy of his video interview with the Ontario Provincial Police (the OPP) under Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The Ministry of the Solicitor General (the ministry) did not locate the responsive video interview. In this interim order, …

Decisions

- Published on February 20, 2025

PO-4604

PO-4604 … A real estate developer that owned land in Oshawa asked Metrolinx for records about the eastward expansion of GO Transit from Oshawa to Bowmanville, including those relating to recommended routing for the train line and Metrolinx’s expropriation of land from private businesses to build …

Decisions

- Published on February 20, 2025

Lost and found: Preserving abandoned health records

Lost and found: Preserving abandoned health records … Case of Note: PHIPA Decision 221 (interim) and PHIPA Decision 230 (final) Background  The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) was contacted about a case of potentially abandoned medical records at a storage facility. The report …

Resource

- Published on January 7, 2025

PHIPA DECISION 270

PHIPA DECISION 270 … A doctor requested records from the Ontario Medical Association’s Physician Health Program (OMA PHP). She had previously been referred to that program by her hospital employer and participated in its assessment services. The OMA PHP denied access to records of interviews with …

Decisions

- Published on February 19, 2025

PHIPA DECISION 271

PHIPA DECISION 271 … This decision concludes an IPC-initiated file arising from allegations made by two different information sources about unauthorized disclosures of personal health information by the respondents Dr. Rita Kilislian, the owner and operator of Kawartha Endodontics (the clinic), …

Decisions

- Published on February 19, 2025

Toronto District School Board cyberattack: Recommendations for improved security

Toronto District School Board cyberattack: Recommendations for improved security … A social engineering attack at a TDSB high school led to the unauthorized access of personal information belonging to current and former students, parents and staff across several schools. The threat actor gained …

Resource

- Published on January 6, 2025

S4-Episode 11: The best of season 4

S4-Episode 11: The best of season 4 … In this special retrospective episode of Info Matters , Commissioner, Patricia Kosseim revisits season four’s standout conversations. Highlights include junior high students' views on privacy, Cynthia Khoo on facial recognition, and Robert Fabes on how people …

Multimedia

- Published on February 12, 2025

MO-4619

MO-4619 … An individual asked the police for specified police records. The police granted access in full to the records. The individual believes that an audio statement should exist. The police said that no more records exist. In this order, the adjudicator determines that the police conducted a …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

MO-4620-F

MO-4620-F … In Order MO-4520-I, the adjudicator reserved her finding regarding whether disclosure of three emails would be an unjustified invasion of personal privacy (section 14(1)), pending the notification of the individuals who might be affected by disclosure. In this final order, the …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

MO-4621

MO-4621 … The appellant asked the police to investigate a police officer under the Criminal Code. According to the police, they investigated the officer and dismissed the appellant’s allegations. The appellant then asked the police, under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

PO-4595

PO-4595 … An individual asked the Ministry of the Solicitor General (the ministry) for access to police records relating to a specified incident on a specified date. The ministry provided some information in a general occurrence report explaining that disclosure of the rest of the information would …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

PO-4596

PO-4596 … An environmental rights organisation made a request to the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. The organisation seeks access to records of requests from landowners to modify the official plans in seven regions of …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

PO-4597-I

PO-4597-I … The appellant made three access requests for records relating to the deaths of two pediatric patients in May or June 2024. The hospital denied access to all records in all requests under the discretionary exemption for economic and other interests (section 18(1)). The appellant appealed …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

PO-4598

PO-4598 … An individual asked for records from the ministry under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act) for any final products, including reports, delivered to the ministry by a consulting company in order to fulfill its consulting contracts related to the COVID-19 …

Decisions

- Published on February 11, 2025

The power of PETs: Building trust through privacy enhancing technologies

The power of PETs: Building trust through privacy enhancing technologies … On January 28, 2025, the IPC had the pleasure of hosting Ontarians at a public event in celebration of Data Privacy Day. The theme was the Power of PETs: Privacy Enhancing Technologies . A recording of the event is available …

Blog

- Published on February 10, 2025