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Public Employees’ Right of Privacy

Just in time for some “light summer reading”, on June 21, 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal issued an interesting decision that may have implications for how institutions conduct searches in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests.

New Podcast from the Ontario Privacy Commissioner

Patricia Kosseim, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has just launched a new podcast: “Info Matters”.

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.

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.

“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 aContinue reading ““I thought we deleted that!” Metadata and Hidden Data”