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.

06/20/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 20th. This week: Ottawa moves on privacy, online safety, and surveillance powers; FIPA releases new work on access rights and transparency systems; and New Brunswick’s review of its access and privacy law points to familiar questions ...

06/20/2026

Join us for FIPA's Annual General Meeting held on June 25, 2026, at 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time via Microsoft Teams. FIPA’s 2026 AGM is an ideal opportunity to hear highlights of the Association’s work over the past year and our key priorities going forward. We will conduct regular AGM business...

06/13/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 13th. This week, voter privacy returns to the spotlight—with a major Senate report and fresh court developments in British Columbia. We’re also tracking Canada’s new AI strategy, proposed online safety rules for children and chatb...

06/06/2026

This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 6th. This week, we begin in Alberta, where new FIPA-Ipsos polling shows strong public support for enforceable privacy rules after the exposure of voter information for 2.9 million Albertans. We’ll also look at Alberta’s new combined...

New Alberta polling conducted by Ipsos for FIPA shows a clear public expectation: voter information should be protected ...
06/03/2026

New Alberta polling conducted by Ipsos for FIPA shows a clear public expectation: voter information should be protected by privacy law, not left to political-party self-regulation.

Key findings:
• 84% say the same private-sector privacy laws should apply.
• 48% prefer shared oversight by elections agencies and privacy commissioners.
• Only 4% support broad political access with fewer privacy rules.

Learn more: www.fipa.bc.ca/2026-fipa-ipsos-alberta-survey

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...

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