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News Summary September 19th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 19th. This week: banking without answers, access rights upheld, privacy lessons in classrooms, data-centre secrecy, America’s ballot battles, and new safeguards for students using AI. Show Notes: https://fipa.bc.ca/nm/20260919-ac...

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News Summary September 5th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 5th. This week: Ontario’s student-aid warning signs, a court fight over the right to be forgotten, a whistleblower warning that a rushed U.S. Postal Service system could put mail ballots at risk, and Meta’s new rules for young ...

Commentary: What Canada’s Privacy Act Must Protect Canada’s Privacy Act was created for a very different technological era. Today, federal institutions can link datasets, automate decisions and use artificial intelligence to make inferences about people. What should the law require before government collects, shares or reuses personal information?...

Commentary: A Call for Stronger Access Rights Canada’s Access to Information Act gives people a legal right to request federal government records. But delays, unclear duties, inconsistent service and gaps created by outsourcing can make that right difficult to use in practice. In this special commentary, host Patrick Farnsworth speaks with Pa...

Commentary: Drawing Access Together — Lessons Learned How do we know whether a freedom-of-information system is actually working? Counting closed files and measuring response times tells only part of the story. In this Access and Privacy Commentary, host Patrick Farnsworth speaks with FIPA researcher Spencer Izen, author of Drawing Access Together, alo...

News Summary Aug 1st, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, August 1st. This week: Alberta’s referendum costs and voter-file concerns; access records exposing hidden delays and historic mistreatment; municipal AI safeguards; and, internationally, the growing struggle over surveillance, public recor...

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 ...