Oct 15 2020
Letter to Mayor Tory regarding Installing COVID Alert app on City of Toronto mobile devices
Aug 18 2020
Letter from Commissioner Kosseim to Toronto Police Service Board regarding Approval of Body-Worn Camera Contract Award and Project Implementation
Jul 31 2020
Following productive and in-depth discussions with the federal and Ontario governments, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) have concluded their review of the COVID Alert exposure notification applicati...
Jul 30 2020
Letter from Commissioner Kosseim to Toronto Police Services Board
Jul 29 2020
TORONTO – Wednesday, July 29, 2020 –On June 25, the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Ontario and British Columbia issued a joint investigation report into the company’s 2019 privacy breach involving millions of its customers.
LifeLabs has since confirmed that they will comply with ...
Jun 25 2020
Canadian laboratory testing company found in violation of privacy laws
TORONTO – Thursday, June 25, 2020 – A joint investigation by the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Ontario and BC has found that LifeLabs failed to protect the personal health information of millions of Canadians re...
May 28 2020
TORONTO, ON (May 28, 2020) – The privacy of Ontarians is at risk in the face of new and emerging technologies unless the government works to modernize its privacy laws.
In the final annual report of his five-year term, released today, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Brian Beam...
May 07 2020
Joint Statement by Federal, Provincial and Territorial Privacy Commissioners[1]
May 7, 2020
The safety and security of Canadians is of grave concern in the current COVID-19 health crisis. The urgency of limiting the spread of the virus is a significant challenge for government and public...
Mar 16 2020
Updated: May 31, 2021
Notice to the Public
To protect our employees’ health and do our part to slow community transmission of the COVID-19 virus, the IPC’s offices have been physically closed since March 16, 2020.
Over the past year, our staff has transitioned to working remotely. During the ...
Mar 16 2020
As a precautionary measure to keep the public and all IPC staff safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is closed as of Monday, March 16.
A limited number of staff will provide essential services until our office reopens. We will contin...