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News Summary July 25th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy 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 all hit the FIPA r...

News Summary July 18th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, July 18th. This week: FIPA calls for stronger federal privacy law; provinces narrow access to records; AI expansion tests energy, consent, and political accountability; and U.S. investigations raise new concerns for public records and press....

News Summary July 11th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, July 11th. We’re back after a brief holiday break. This week: a lawsuit over the exposure of nearly three million Alberta voters, unanswered questions about overdoses inside B.C. hospitals, expanding surveillance in the United States, and ...

Brief Update: Holiday Break and Upcoming Coverage The team here at Access and Privacy Online is taking the next week off for the holiday. We’ll be back July 11th with more coverage. We’ll also be putting together some commentaries over the summer on the developing access and privacy stories we have been covering here on the podcast. Take care, ...

News Summary June 27th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 20th. This week: transparency systems under scrutiny in B.C., new federal privacy and online safety proposals, whistleblower concerns from Montreal police, and major U.S. stories on public records, voter data, and law enforcement accoun...

News Summary June 20th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 20th. This week: Ottawa moves on privacy, online safety, and surveillance powers; FIPA releases new work on access rights and transparency systems; and New Brunswick’s review of its access and privacy law points to familiar questions ...

Join FIPA's Annual General Meeting — June 25, 5 PM PST Join us for FIPA's Annual General Meeting held on June 25, 2026, at 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time via Microsoft Teams. FIPA’s 2026 AGM is an ideal opportunity to hear highlights of the Association’s work over the past year and our key priorities going forward. We will conduct regular AGM business...

News Summary June 13th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 13th. This week, voter privacy returns to the spotlight—with a major Senate report and fresh court developments in British Columbia. We’re also tracking Canada’s new AI strategy, proposed online safety rules for children and chatb...

News Summary June 6th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 6th. This week, we begin in Alberta, where new FIPA-Ipsos polling shows strong public support for enforceable privacy rules after the exposure of voter information for 2.9 million Albertans. We’ll also look at Alberta’s new combined...

New Alberta polling conducted by Ipsos for FIPA shows a clear public expectation: voter information should be protected by privacy law, not left to political-party self-regulation.

Key findings:
• 84% say the same private-sector privacy laws should apply.
• 48% prefer shared oversight by elections agencies and privacy commissioners.
• Only 4% support broad political access with fewer privacy rules.

Learn more: www.fipa.bc.ca/2026-fipa-ipsos-alberta-survey