Tag: Reference
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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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Personal Liability for FOI Mistakes
Given that the Acts assign responsibility for responding to FOI requests personally to the heads of institutions and their delegates, individuals involved in processing requests may reasonably wonder whether their actions — intentional or not — could result in personal civil liability. In other words, could a head or employee be sued for failing to…
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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.
FOI Assist Knowledge Base 