Mar 01 2017
The IPC has published a new Code of Procedure for Matters under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004. This code comes into force on March 15, 2017, and will apply immediately to all IPC files under PHIPA. This code replaces the IPC’s “Code of Procedure for Access and Correctio...
Feb 10 2017
Every month, the IPC makes decisions on access to information appeals and privacy complaints. Here is a sampling of four recent decisions:
INTERIM ORDER PO-3673-I (Ministry of the Attorney General) – The requester was convicted of manslaughter in 1986 and released from prison in 1992. He ha...
Jan 25 2017
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 increasingly use big data tools to impro...
Jan 24 2017
The Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) company whose employee improperly collected and used personal health information of Ontario hospital patients has implemented recommendations from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). A recently completed third-party audit determin...
Jan 18 2017
Every month, IPC adjudicators make decisions on access to information appeals and privacy complaints. Here are four recent key decisions:
MO-3376 (City of Hamilton) A city decision to release copies of a successful proposal relating to the city’s purchase of refuse packers, as well as any ass...
Dec 19 2016
In June 2016 I had the honour to present the 2015 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, including a full array of statistics, to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Included in this report, as has been customary over the years, are tables showing compliance by pro...
Dec 08 2016
Technological advancements have changed the way Ontario’s public institutions develop policy and design service delivery programs. Governments are collecting more data than ever before, and are taking advantage of powerful computing and analytical models. Many believe that big data analytics su...
Dec 05 2016
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada and his Quebec and Ontario counterparts will hold a news conference Tuesday to discuss privacy issues and the federal government’s national consultation on modernizing Canada’s national security Framework.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien, Onta...
Nov 28 2016
Educators are using online educational services for student learning, communication and evaluation. While these services may be innovative, accessible and available at little or no cost, their use could put the privacy of students and their families at risk. Sometimes teachers use online servic...
Nov 23 2016
Our office has reviewed Bill 41, Patients First Act, 2016, which proposes to eliminate Ontario’s 14 Community Care Access Centres and transfer their functions to Ontario’s Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs). As a result of the changes, LHINs would also be given an expanded role to over...