Tag: Educational Material

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Fact Sheet #08 – Lock-box Fact Sheet
Topic: health | privacy
Type: fact sheets

Date: Jul 01 2005   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #06 – Reporting Requests under PHIPA
Topic: health
Type: fact sheets

Revised October 2012

Date: Apr 01 2005   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #04 – Fundraising under PHIPA
Topic: health
Type: fact sheets

Revised Sept. 2014.

Date: Apr 01 2005   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #01 – Safeguarding Personal Health Information
Topic: health | privacy
Type: fact sheets

Date: Jan 01 2005   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Grade 5 Brochure – What Students Need to Know About Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Topic: access | privacy | youth
Type: brochures

The brochure explains the IPC’s outreach program to schools in Ontario, specifically for grade 5

Date: Jan 01 1999   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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What Students Need to Know – Grade 5 Teacher’s Guide

This guide focuses on introducing students to the importance of the public values of access to government-held information and personal privacy.

Date: Sep 01 2005   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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What Students Need to Know – Grade 10 Teacher’s Guide

Other Resources: Grade 10 Fact Sheet What Students Need to Know – Grade 11 & 12 Teacher’s Guide

Date: Dec 06 2010   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Grade 11/12 Brochure – What Students Need to Know About Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy

The brochure explains the IPC’s outreach program to schools in Ontario, specifically for grades 11/12

Date: Sep 01 2004   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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What Students Need to Know – A Resource for Grade 11/12 Teachers

Program focuses on introducing students to the importance of the public values of access to government-held information and personal privacy. Expanded program for Grade 11/12.  

Date: Sep 01 2004   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Ontario’s Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: A Mini Guide
Type: brochures

A quick overview of the key points of the municipal Act. [Revised July 2014]

Date: Jun 01 1998   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Access and Correction Complaints – Personal Health Information Protection Act

This brochure provides information on complaints about access or correction of personal health information under PHIPA.

Date: Dec 16 2004   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Access to Information under Ontario’s Information and Privacy Acts
Topic: access | legislation
Type: brochures

Information on how to file an access to information request under FIPPA or MFIPPA. [Revised Feb 2019]

Date: Apr 01 2006   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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The Appeal Process and Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner
Type: brochures

Consumer information regarding appeals of a decision made to an access request under FIPPA or MFIPPA. [Revised Jan 2019]

Date: Sep 01 2000   Type: Resource   Access: Public

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Collection, Use, Disclosure and Other Complaints – Personal Health Information Protection Act

This brochure provides information about collection, use, disclosure and other complaints under PHIPA.

Date: Dec 01 2004   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: A Mini Guide
Type: brochures

A quick overview of the key points of the provincial Act. [Revised July 2014]

Date: Mar 01 2000   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Frequently Asked Questions: Health Cards and Health Numbers

Our frequently asked questions on health cards and health numbers clarify who may collect, use or disclose health numbers for health care purposes, as well as the use of health cards as a proof of identity. Originally published November 2004.

Date: Oct 01 2021   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Inspection Reports and Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act
Topic: legislation | privacy

A joint project of the Town of Newmarket and the IPC

Date: Jun 01 2003   Type: Resource   Access: Professional

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Fact Sheet #10 – Secure Destruction of Personal Information

Date: Dec 04 2005   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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The Personal Health Information Protection Act and Your Privacy
Topic: health | privacy
Type: brochures

[Revised February 2019]

Date: Oct 01 2004   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #13 – Wireless Communications Technologies: Video Surveillance Systems

Fact Sheet about the use of wireless CCTV cameras.  

Date: Jun 07 2007   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Safeguarding Privacy on Mobile Devices

A brochure outlining suggested best practices for securing mobile devices (PDAs, laptops, etc.) and protecting the information carried out of the workplace on them. Steps are organized into sections: Before you Walk out of the Workplace, While you are Out and When You have Completed Your Work. In...

Date: Jun 14 2007   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Reference Check: Is Your Boss Watching? The New World of Social Media: Privacy and Your Facebook Profile

Social networking websites such as Facebook are now so popular that they are being used by employers to screen prospects. Information you post on your profile for the amusement of you and your friends may, therefore, be viewed in a different light. This short paper cautions users of these sites a...

Date: Oct 24 2007   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Your Rights under Ontario’s Freedom of Information Laws

Your Rights under Ontario’s Freedom of Information Laws

Date: Jul 24 2008   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #16 – Health-Care Requirement for Strong Encryption

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, in Order HO-004 and Order HO-007, required that health information be safeguarded at all times, specifically by ensuring that any personal health information stored on any mobile devices (e.g., laptops, memory sticks, PDAs) be strongly encry...

Date: Jul 16 2010   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #17 – Applying PHIPA and FIPPA/MFIPPA to Personal Health Information

The purpose of this Fact Sheet is to provide organizations that are defined as both health information custodians under the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA) and institutions under public sector privacy and access to information legislation, namely the provincial Freedom of Infor...

Date: Apr 19 2011   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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What Students Need to Know – Grade 11 & 12 Teacher’s Guide

Other Resources: Grade 11/12 Fact Sheet What Students Need to Know – Grade 10 Teacher’s Guide

Date: Sep 27 2011   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Fact Sheet #18 – Secure Transfer of Personal Health Information

In Order HO-011, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) ordered Cancer Care Ontario to discontinue its practice of transferring records of personal health information relating to its colon cancer screening program in paper format, after several courier packages containing the p...

Date: Aug 01 2012   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Identity Theft: A Crime of Opportunity

Practical information about identity theft, how to avoid it, and what to do if you find you are a victim.

Date: Jul 17 2012   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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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 increasingly use big data tools to impro...

Date: Jan 25 2017   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Big Data Guidelines

Date: May 17 2017   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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Privacy Complaint Report MC17-32

Privacy Complaint MC17-32 Halton Regional Police Services Board Issued October 25, 2019  

Date: Nov 22 2019   Type: Resource   Access: Both

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