Tag: IPCO
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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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Requests for Continuing Access
In Ontario, requestors can make requests for “continuing access” to records held by an institution.
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New IPCO Guidelines for the Law Enforcement Exemption
The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPCO) has released a new interpretation bulletin providing key guidance and case citations for institutions applying the Law Enforcement exemption under Ontario’s access to information legislation.
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When are Personal Phone Records Subject to FOI?
For the past two years, a significant case has been unfolding in Ontario’s Freedom of Information (FOI) system, highlighting the delicate balance between expectations of privacy on our personal devices and the public’s demand for access to government records. In late 2022, Global News submitted an FOI request seeking access to Premier Doug Ford’s personal…
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