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20261107 Access and Privacy Online
Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, November 7th.
This week: surveillance powers, environmental records, and the Crime Stoppers breach. Plus, military data gathering, American transparency battles, and AI’s growing influence on access to information.
With municipal and provincial elections across the country, the dust is still settling around newly elected leadership.
In the days and weeks ahead, FIPA will be looking at what those leaders committed to on access, privacy and public accountability.
We’ll bring you analysis to help track those commitments, hold elected officials accountable, and encourage better decisions in the public interest. Be sure to tune tune in in the weeks and months ahead.
Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, ListenNotes, Podchaser, Boomplay.
Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca
You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.
Full Show Links
FIPA Voter Privacy.ca
- Voterprivacy.ca
OIPC Consultation
- OIPC launches consultation on large volume freedom of information requests
- Participate in the consultation:
- Updated Guide to OIPC processes (PIPA)
- Updated Guide to OIPC processes (FIPPA)
- Framework infographic
- Updated Time extension guidelines for public bodies
Hot Topics
- We don’t want state surveillance. Senators: Stop Bill C-22!
- Utilizing beadwork, an artist encounters her mother’s history in the child ‘welfare’ record
- Spotlight Childwelfare
- OpenAI challenging B.C. privacy order for details of Tumbler Ridge shooting
- https://fipa.bc.ca/openai-challenging-b-c-privacy-order-for-details-of-tumbler-ridge-shooting/
Canadian Access Stories
- Montreal police explain why it took a day to dismantle unit accused of misconduct
- Canada can develop infrastructure and protect biodiversity
- Province to blow past climate targets, internal government documents reveal
- Ford’s Bill 140 ‘eviscerates’ Ontario’s bedrock environmental laws, hands developers what they want
- OSAP pause hits paramedic students bound to work in underserved areas
- Record number of women elected to Manitoba municipal councils, AMM president says more work remains
Canadian Crime Stoppers Data Breach
- Data breach hurts crime tipsters
- The Chatham Voice – https://chathamvoice.com/2026/11/03/data-breach-hurts-crime-tipsters/
- Temiskaming OPP suspends use of Crime Stoppers
- Temiskaming Speaker – https://speaker.northernontario.ca/temiskaming-opp-suspends-use-of-crime-stoppers/
- Chatham-Kent Police launch new tip line following National Crime Stoppers Security Breach
- The Ridgetown Independent News – https://ridgetownnews.com/
- City police pause Crime Stoppers promotion amid security concerns
- YRP suspends partnership with Crime Stoppers following data breach
- The Auroran – https://www.newspapers-online.com/auroran/
Canadian Privacy
- Spy watchdog flags privacy risk from military’s online intelligence activities
- Privacy commissioner calls for new curbs on government’s ‘lawful access’ bill
- RCMP warn of scammers posing as Mounties, targeting Alberta phones
United States Access and Privacy
- Bodycam video shows aftermath of fatal shooting by National Guard in Memphis
- El Paso Matters challenges secrecy over Walmart shooting investigation records
- Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal
- Authorities release 911 call from the man who killed a shooter inside an Oregon elementary school
International Access and Privacy
- Lockheed Martin to pay $29.5 million to settle federal claims it discriminated against white workers
- Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI
- An anonymous celebrity loses UK court bid to block reports of alleged sexual misconduct
- Argentina’s Milei pitches a regulation-free AI haven at the end of the world
Other FIPA Updates
- Access and Privacy Online in the Classroom
Your Access and Privacy Online News Summary for Saturday, November 7th.
This week: surveillance powers, environmental records, and the Crime Stoppers breach. Plus, military data gathering, American transparency battles, and AI’s growing influence on access to information.
With municipal and provincial elections across the country, the dust is still settling around newly elected leadership.
In the days and weeks ahead, FIPA will be looking at what those leaders committed to on access, privacy and public accountability.
We’ll bring you analysis to help track those commitments, hold elected officials accountable, and encourage better decisions in the public interest. Be sure to tune tune in in the weeks and months ahead.
Also available through: PodBean, Apple iTunes, YouTube, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, ListenNotes, Podchaser, Boomplay.
Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Send comments to: FIPAOnline @ fipa.bc.ca
You can support these efforts by subscribing or donating.
Full Show Links
FIPA Voter Privacy.ca
- Voterprivacy.ca
OIPC Consultation
- OIPC launches consultation on large volume freedom of information requests
- Participate in the consultation:
- Updated Guide to OIPC processes (PIPA)
- Updated Guide to OIPC processes (FIPPA)
- Framework infographic
- Updated Time extension guidelines for public bodies
Hot Topics
- We don’t want state surveillance. Senators: Stop Bill C-22!
- Utilizing beadwork, an artist encounters her mother’s history in the child ‘welfare’ record
- Spotlight Childwelfare
- OpenAI challenging B.C. privacy order for details of Tumbler Ridge shooting
- https://fipa.bc.ca/openai-challenging-b-c-privacy-order-for-details-of-tumbler-ridge-shooting/
Canadian Access Stories
- Montreal police explain why it took a day to dismantle unit accused of misconduct
- Canada can develop infrastructure and protect biodiversity
- Province to blow past climate targets, internal government documents reveal
- Ford’s Bill 140 ‘eviscerates’ Ontario’s bedrock environmental laws, hands developers what they want
- OSAP pause hits paramedic students bound to work in underserved areas
- Record number of women elected to Manitoba municipal councils, AMM president says more work remains
Canadian Crime Stoppers Data Breach
- Data breach hurts crime tipsters
- The Chatham Voice – https://chathamvoice.com/2026/11/03/data-breach-hurts-crime-tipsters/
- Temiskaming OPP suspends use of Crime Stoppers
- Temiskaming Speaker – https://speaker.northernontario.ca/temiskaming-opp-suspends-use-of-crime-stoppers/
- Chatham-Kent Police launch new tip line following National Crime Stoppers Security Breach
- The Ridgetown Independent News – https://ridgetownnews.com/
- City police pause Crime Stoppers promotion amid security concerns
- YRP suspends partnership with Crime Stoppers following data breach
- The Auroran – https://www.newspapers-online.com/auroran/
Canadian Privacy
- Spy watchdog flags privacy risk from military’s online intelligence activities
- Privacy commissioner calls for new curbs on government’s ‘lawful access’ bill
- RCMP warn of scammers posing as Mounties, targeting Alberta phones
United States Access and Privacy
- Bodycam video shows aftermath of fatal shooting by National Guard in Memphis
- El Paso Matters challenges secrecy over Walmart shooting investigation records
- Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal
- Authorities release 911 call from the man who killed a shooter inside an Oregon elementary school
International Access and Privacy
- Lockheed Martin to pay $29.5 million to settle federal claims it discriminated against white workers
- Google will cut off search access for students at schools that reject AI
- An anonymous celebrity loses UK court bid to block reports of alleged sexual misconduct
- Argentina’s Milei pitches a regulation-free AI haven at the end of the world
Other FIPA Updates
- Access and Privacy Online in the Classroom