This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, August 2nd.   We start with a scan of access to information stories across Canada that touch on many recurring issues—including a legislative review in New Brunswick that could strengthen the province’s Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.  Then, as back-to-school season begins, we look […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced it is launching a new program that will allow Americans to share personal health data and medical records across health systems and apps run by private tech companies, promising that will make it easier to access health records and monitor wellness. More than 60 companies, including major tech […]

Nationwide, scams of all kinds are more dangerous and convincing than ever, with some scammers even hiding under the chaos of back to school season. In Calgary, June 2025 saw over $6.5 million in losses due to fraud and scams, with 584 successful incidents reported to police. Scammers have targeted victims with deceptive parking and […]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Treasury is seeking to recoup COVID-19 pandemic relief funds from hundreds of local governments that received millions of dollars but never complied with requirements to report how they used the money. The federal government distributed $350 billion to state, local, territorial and tribal governments as part of the […]

The number of Manitobans concerned about crime and public safety has risen steadily, an opinion poll done for the Manitoba government suggests. The Benchmark poll by Leger is commissioned by the province and conducted every few months to gauge public concerns. The latest available survey, done in October and obtained by The Canadian Press under […]

Bow River MP David Bexte has been on the move within the riding and in Ottawa as he adapts to the flow of life as a parliamentarian. Since being elected, Bexte has been appointed to the standing committee on environment and sustainable development and voted on 34 motions in the House of Commons. On July […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove 50-49 for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge Tuesday as Republicans dismissed whistleblower complaints about his conduct at the Justice Department. A former federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Bove was on Trump’s legal team during his New […]

Tea, a dating discussion app that recently suffered a high-profile cybersecurity breach, announced late Monday that some direct messages were also accessed in the incident. The app — designed to let women safely discuss men they date — rocketed to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store last week but then confirmed on Friday […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County leaders want to prohibit law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while on duty, a response to recent immigration raids during which some federal agents refused to identify themselves or covered their faces. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 4—0, with one abstention, to direct county counsel […]

When a federal judge ruled last month in favour of Woodfibre LNG’s floating work camp to keep housing workers near Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, it seemed at first glance the legal challenge had failed. The judicial review case asked the court to overturn the federal government’s approval of the “floatel” — a former Estonian cruise liner converted into […]

Amidst a worsening staffing crisis in Alberta’s emergency medical services, Edmonton paramedics are logging record amounts of overtime. Yet, dozens of shifts go unfilled each day and drops in service levels have become routine. In 2024, Edmonton EMS staff worked 134,573 hours of overtime, an 81 per cent increase from 74,356 hours in 2021, according […]

A cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company’s computer systems on Monday, Russia’s prosecutor’s office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others. Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian President […]