Tag: Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet #07 – Disclosure of Information Permitted in Emergency or other Urgent Circumstances
Date: Jul 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #06 – Reporting Requests under PHIPA
Revised October 2012
Date: Apr 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #04 – Fundraising under PHIPA
Revised Sept. 2014.
Date: Apr 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #02 – Your health information – Your access and correction rights
Date: Jan 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #01 – Safeguarding Personal Health Information
Date: Jan 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #09 – Long-term Care Homes: Consent and Access under the Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004
Date: Oct 01 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #10 – Secure Destruction of Personal Information
Date: Dec 04 2005 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet #11- Health Information Custodians Working for Non-Health Information Custodians
Date: Feb 01 2006 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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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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The Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Councillors’ records
Our office is sometimes required to decide access to information appeals relating to requests for records held by municipal councillors. Unfortunately, the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA) does not expressly refer to records of municipal councillors. This fa...
Date: Apr 22 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet: Communicating Personal Health Information by Email
This fact sheet describes the risks of using email and custodians’ obligations under the Personal Health Information Protection Act. It outlines some of the technical, physical and administrative safeguards needed to protect personal health information when communicating by email and the polici...
Date: Sep 15 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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You are Affected by a Freedom of Information Request: What You Should Know
This fact sheet seeks to answer some of the common questions you may have about the freedom of information process. This document is part of a series designed to keep the public and professionals up to date with the IPC’s interpretations of access and privacy laws.
Date: Sep 26 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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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 the public and professionals up to date with the IPC’s interpretations of access an...
Date: Oct 04 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet: What is Personal Information?
This fact sheet explains the meaning of the term “personal information,” and answers frequently asked questions.
Date: Oct 20 2016 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Fact Sheet: Video Surveillance
Topic:
privacy
| privacy and transparency in a modern government
| surveillance
| technology and security
This fact sheet highlights the important factors an institution must consider before implementing a video surveillance system.
Date: Nov 09 2016 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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Fact Sheet: Reasonable Search
This fact sheet answers some frequently asked questions about reasonable searches for records.
Date: Apr 11 2017 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Disposing of Your Electronic Media
Topic:
information management
| privacy and transparency in a modern government
| technology and security
This fact sheet provides guidance on how Ontario public institutions and health information custodians can securely destroy personal information when disposing of electronic media.
Date: Mar 06 2018 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Smart Cities and Your Privacy Rights
Type:
fact sheets
Date: Apr 27 2018 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Privacy Fact Sheet: General Data Protection Regulation
Date: Jul 11 2018 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Access Fact Sheet: Third Party Information Exemption
Date: Sep 26 2018 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Disclosure of Personal Information to Law Enforcement
Date: Nov 22 2018 Type: Resource Access: Both
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A Guide to Privacy and Access in Ontario Schools
Date: Jan 10 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Protecting Your Students’ Privacy Online (Fact Sheet)
Date: Jan 10 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Privacy and Access to Information in Ontario Schools: A Guide for Educators (Fact Sheet)
Date: Jan 10 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Succession Planning to Help Prevent Abandoned Records
Date: Apr 15 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Accessing Your Deceased Relative’s Personal Information
Date: Apr 24 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Release of personal information to police: your privacy rights
Date: Aug 12 2019 Type: Resource Access: Both
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Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic
Date: Jul 23 2020 Type: Resource Access: Both
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How to Protect Against Ransomware
This fact sheet from the IPC discusses how ransomware has become an increasingly dangerous threat to the security of electronic records and provides guidance on how public institutions and healthcare organizations can protect themselves against it.
Date: Oct 13 2022 Type: Resource Access: Both
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