Election season in British Columbia means access to information and privacy are on the ballot. The BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) commissioned IPSOS, a leading independent market research company, to poll public opinion on information management in public bodies. The results show there is strong agreement around what is expected of public […]

Access to information can only work if information is managed. In FIPA’s view we all lose when public bodies can’t manage their information to make data-driven decisions and provide access to information.   FIPA’s Access Assessment is going through a top to bottom rewrite and restructure in preparation for the upcoming release of a full report […]

New for 2023 FIPA has expanded the research from its interprovincial legislative comparisons across Canada.

New for 2024 FIPA has expanded the research from its interprovincial legislative comparisons across Canada. Given broad direction to explore and create this expanded analysis Cole Munro Theobald and Ryan Rutley developed this work.

The secret to avoiding red lights during rush hour in Utah’s largest city might be as simple as following a bus. Transportation officials have spent the past few years refining a system in which radio transmitters inside commuter buses talk directly to the traffic signals in the Salt Lake City area, requesting a few extra […]

BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) was pleased to participate in the Foreign Interference Commission’s public consultation process. Given broad direction to explore and investigate with extended advisors Ryan Rutley complied the following submission. The Commission is investigating threats to Canadian democracy from foreign interference and assessing the Canadian government’s capacity to defend […]

FIPA was contacted by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and invited to consult on the development of LAC guidelines for the public interest disclosure of archival documents that may contain personal information. Working with a tight timeline, we were able to research the issue, consult subject matter experts, and prepare and present a brief that […]

Last spring, FIPA began more extensive News Monitoring with content through Canadian Press. We’re pleased to announce we are expanding that into a weekly podcast.  Your weekly roundup of the news stories impacting the information management field.  Available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM.  FIPA will continue to build and expand the […]

Katie Punia drafted the following as part of her professional experience placement at FIPA from the UBC Master of Library and Information Science program. While here she applied FIPA’s records classification and retention schedule and completed the OCAP® program through the First Nations Information Governance Centre. In combination we had her consider the intersection of […]

The B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association is monitoring the government’s response to the series of “sophisticated cybersecurity incidents” identified over the course of the last week across the Government of British Columbia.  “Questions such as ‘how did this happen?’ and ‘what is being done to improve information security and prevent future incidents?’ must […]

FIPA is grateful and privileged to have post-secondary students drawing and contributing from a variety of experiences. Jerika Caduhada is one of FIPAs University of Victoria Law students who has been working on activities in FIPAs mandate areas. This February, as part of her studies she had the opportunity to participate in The Julius Alexander […]

As the Office of the Special Interlocutor called for open submissions FIPAs Gage Smith drew from his research on Leading Language to draft a submission.
From this expanded research, there are simple steps that Provincial Governments can act upon to address issues that have been identified.