Tag: FIPPA
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Highlights from the “Reaching Out to Ontario – Waterloo” event
Highlights from the recent “Reaching Out to Ontario” event presented on Friday, May 31, 2019 by the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPCO) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.
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Reaching Out to Ontario – Waterloo
I’ll be attending the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario’s Reaching Out to Ontario event at Wilfrid Laurier University this Friday.
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When is labour and employment information exempt from disclosure?
In Ontario, both the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA) contain special provisions regarding labour and employment information which often have the effect of giving institutions the option (or in some cases, an obligation) to refuse to disclose such information…
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Do institutions have to disclose electronic versions of records?
Can requestors specify whatever format they want? How should an institution respond to a request that specifies the format in which the requestor would like to receive the records? For example, an institution might receive a request for hundreds of pages of documents which are stored by the institution only in hard copy, but the…
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“I thought we deleted that!” Metadata and Hidden Data
What are Metadata and Hidden Data? Metadata Metadata refers to information “about” a record. For a Microsoft Word document, this could include information such as the author of the document, the date and time the document was created, the time spent editing the document, its length, its description, comments about the document, etc. For a…
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