Millions of BC residents are required to provide their personal information to ICBC to obtain a driver's licence, register or insure a vehicle, or process an insurance claim. Each year the Crown ...

As a result, public bodies in British Columbia should undertake a thorough review of their existing privacy policies and procedures as soon as possible to ensure they are compliant with Bill 22 by ...

A medical company hit by an October ransomware data privacy breach affecting 15 million Canadians is again named in a B.C. ministerial order as a company that can share British Columbians’ data.

"This is about data sharing, creating a giant vacuum cleaner in Victoria that will be sucking up information around the province and allowing government officials to match this and create what you ...

The OIPC has issued recent guidance for private sector organizations operating in British Columbia, ... The OIPC recommends that private sector organizations prepare a privacy impact assessment ...

Federal, provincial, and territorial privacy regulators address responsible information sharing in situations involving intimate partner violence Français News provided by ...

About 8,000 College Pension Plan members are receiving notification from the B.C. Pension Corporation that their personal information may be at risk after a box went missing during an office move ...

The federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners have launched a joint investigation into Victoria-based background-check technology startup Certn.. Both agencies are looking into Certn’s use of ...

BC information and privacy commissioner Michael Harvey is concerned that increasing delays and non-responses to freedom of information requests will erode the public’s trust in government.

In a letter to Beare, information and privacy commissioner Michael McEvoy said he had “deep concern” about several of the BC NDP’s proposed FIPPA changes, particularly one that would allow ...