Tag: IPCO
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Introducing the FOI Assist Seminar Series (2026)
FOI Assist is pleased to announce the launch of the FOI Assist Seminar Series (2026) — a free, practical Freedom of Information training program designed specifically for Ontario’s provincial and municipal institutions.
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New Ontario Privacy Impact Assessment Guideline
Today’s article summarizes the most important changes between the 2015 and 2025 versions of IPCO’s PIA guideline and explains how these changes may affect your institution’s privacy management practices.
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Data Sharing Agreements
A recently announced data-sharing MOU demonstrates IPCO’s compliance with its own guidance. By issuing this MOU, IPCO has put in place a Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) of its own to facilitate information sharing with another government entity.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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