FIPA

FIPA We are a non-partisan non-profit community promoting and defending freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada.

The BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) is a non-partisan, non-profit society that was established in 1991 to promote and defend freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada. Our goal is to empower citizens by increasing their access to information and their control over their own personal information. We serve a wide variety of individuals and organizations through pro

grams of public education, public assistance, research, and law reform. We are one of very few public interest groups in Canada devoted solely to the advancement of freedom of information (FOI) and privacy rights.

05/30/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 30th. This week, we begin in Ottawa, where a number of major files moved forward. The federal government says it will amend parts of its contentious lawful access bill, while civil liberties groups continue warning that Bill C-22 could e...

05/23/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 23rd. This week, privacy and transparency are colliding with some of the biggest political and public policy questions in the country. We begin with a network update on Bill C-22, the federal lawful access bill that civil liberties group...

05/21/2026

In last week’s News Summary for May 16th, we at FIPA spotlighted the fallout from a cyberattack on the online learning platform Canvas, the inherent risk of education systems relying on outside platforms for essential functions, and that when one is compromised, the impact can spread across thousa...

05/19/2026

In last week’s News Summary for May 16th, we at FIPA spotlighted privacy concerns regarding connected cars, namely major gaps in automakers’ privacy policies when measured against Canadian data-protection principles. We really wanted to highlight that story, and so we’re presenting it again on...

05/16/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 16th. This week, we begin in Alberta, where the voter list breach continues to widen—with Elections Alberta warning that the number of people who accessed the data may be incomplete, while privacy, election, and police investigations c...

05/13/2026

FIPA President Mike Larsen reflects on the Alberta elector data breach. In this commentary, he considers that when political parties are left outside meaningful privacy rules, sensitive democratic data can be collected, shared, and exposed without proper accountability. Mike connects the Alberta bre...

05/09/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 9th. This week, we begin with the still-unfolding Alberta voter list breach, where nearly three million electors' personal information may have been exposed through a searchable database tied to separatist organizing. The latest developm...

05/02/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 2nd. This week, we begin with a developing voter privacy story out of Alberta. Elections Alberta says there was no breach of its own systems—but that a copy of the provincial List of Electors, provided to a legitimate political recipie...

04/25/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, April 25th. This week, access-to-information rights are under pressure in Ontario and British Columbia, civil society is warning Parliament about Bill C-22, and new Ipsos polling shows Canadians want stronger privacy rules for federal politi...

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