Tag: FIPPA

  • Drafting Privacy Impact Assessments in 2025

    Drafting Privacy Impact Assessments in 2025

    Today’s article explains how to draft Privacy Impact Assessments “right now”, as of the second half of 2025, using the best currently available resources, while ensuring compliance with the new legislative requirements.

  • IPCO Instructs Requestor to Resubmit FOI Request

    IPCO Instructs Requestor to Resubmit FOI Request

    Today’s article is a response to a question from an FOI Assist Knowledge Base reader in Ontario.

  • Reasonable Search Affirmed

    Reasonable Search Affirmed

    Although institutions are expected to make a genuine effort to locate all records responsive to a request, institutions are not required to prove with absolute certainty that no responsive records (or no additional responsive records) exist in response to an access request. Under both FIPPA and MFIPPA, it is sufficient for an institution to provide…

  • FOIPN Presentation: Frivolous and Vexatious Requests

    FOIPN Presentation: Frivolous and Vexatious Requests

    FOI Assist was proud to sponsor, exhibit and present at this year’s Freedom of Information Police Network (FOIPN) Conference, held earlier this week at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario. A copy of the slide deck from the Frivolous and Vexatious Requests presentation is available below.

  • Requests for Continuing Access

    Requests for Continuing Access

    In Ontario, requestors can make requests for “continuing access” to records held by an institution.