Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, July 25th.
We are into the news doldrums of summer right now, that said there are still stories hitting our radar. This week: bridge records, surveillance pricing, paid priority access to Truth Social, and Vatican secrecy.
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Canadian Access Updates
- Canada 1st to get ‘observer’ status in multinational next-gen fighter jet program
- Officials scrambled behind the scenes as Trump took aim at bridge project: emails
- Ontario disqualifies students at five career colleges from receiving OSAP loans
- Ramara weighing $225K demolition cost for aged Brechin buildings
- I don’t like how it was presented’: Ramara council debates policy change
- Quebec police ethics commissioner opens file into Montréal-Nord racism allegations
- Town residents provided opportunity to influence 2027 budget
Canadian Privacy Updates
- Toronto may be out of its depth on proposed surveillance pricing ban, experts say
- Disciplinary hearing centres on teacher’s 15-second hug with student
- SPSA urges residents to register before evacuation emergencies
- RCMP tell campers to lock up as summer travel season peaks
- Slave Lake RCMP see seasonal shift in police calls and rise in AI scams
US and International Access and Privacy
- Canadian in ICE custody after being charged with hitting American youth
- Trump firm plans to sell priority access to Truth Social posts, possibly his own
- Vatican defends secrecy in sensitive abuse case involving ex-Jesuit artist Marko Rupnik
Other FIPA Updates
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