A Saskatchewan privacy review has been discontinued after the University of Saskatchewan released an employee’s complete central HR personnel file, rendering the dispute over whether the original requ… Free Membership …
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Is someone watching you? Facial recognition tech is here and Canada offers little privacy protection
By Neil McArthur Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the …
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PREMIUM City of Kingston ordered to disclose total legal costs paid in employee dismissals
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Norfolk County records on wrongful dismissal insurance claim excluded from freedom of information access
A former county employee who sued for wrongful dismissal cannot use Ontario’s freedom of information law to access records about the county’s insurance coverage for that claim, an adjudicator has …
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City of Stratford barred from releasing records tied to worker complaints under privacy law exclusion
A privacy adjudicator has dismissed an appeal by a member of the public seeking access to records behind a city’s decision to bar them from municipal property, ruling the documents …
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OIPC orders Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan to disclose emails withheld as investigation records
An Alberta employee benefits organization must release emails it wrongly withheld from a disability claimant, an adjudicator with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has ruled, find… Free …
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Alberta’s government is asking residents and businesses to weigh in on updates to the province’s 15-year-old privacy legislation through a public survey running until Feb. 17. The Personal Information… Free …
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Alberta’s information and privacy commissioner has ordered Calgary Police Service to respond to an access request made in April 2025, after the police service failed to meet statutory timelines and …
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Pregnancy discrimination claim tossed after worker fails to address termination letter citing privacy breach
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has dismissed a discrimination application after finding a worker failed to prove her pregnancy was a factor in her termination, despite allegations her supervisor… …
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SFU did not breach privacy act in sharing shuttle driver complaint with employer, court rules
A British Columbia court has dismissed a petition by a former campus shuttle driver who claimed Simon Fraser University (SFU) breached privacy law when it passed along a worker’s complaint …

