Resources

Policy Development

• A Policy is Not Enough: It Must be Reflected in Concrete Practices, by Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
  
• Renewing The Privacy Act: Final Report, by the Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan
• Privacy by Design and the Personal Data Ecosystem, by Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
• Privacy Impact Assessments resources, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Student Safety and Cyberbullying

• Guidelines for Information Sharing related to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (2003): For School Division and Young Offender Programs Personnel, by the Government of Saskatchewan
• Child Identity Theft: A Lot of Questions Need to Be Answered, But the Most Important One is “Has It Happened to Your Child?”, by Richard Power, Carnegie Mellon CyLab Blog
• Summary of Research on Youth Online Privacy, by Valerie Steeves, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

Social Media for Employees

• Firewalls or Open Doors?, by Paula Dunning, Editor, Education Canada
• Facebook for Educators Guide, by Linda Fogg Phillips, Derek Baird and BJ Fogg, Facebook.com
  
• Reference Check: Is Your Boss Watching? – The New World of Social Media: Privacy and Your Facebook Profile, by Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ontario, Canada
• Guidelines for Social Media Background Checks, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
• Social Media in the Canadian Workplace: A Live Exchange, Lancaster House
• The Proof is In the Profile: Obtaining Disclosure of Plaintiffs’ Facebook Information, by Julia Anagnostakis, Blaney McMurtry LLP
• The Social Media Challenge – Discipline, Good Character, and the Right to Freedom of Expression, by Bonnie Bokenfohr, Field Law, Perspectives for the Profession
• Privacy in the Social Media Age, by Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• Use of Personal Email Accounts for Public Business, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia
• Twitter and Canadian Educators, by Max Cooke, Education Canada
• Xerox Social Media Guidelines, Xerox Corporation

Mobile Devices

• Courts divided on cellphone searches, by Kendyl Sebesta, Law Times News
  
• Helpful Tips: Mobile Device Security, Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner

Cloud Computing

• Practice Resource: Cloud computing checklist, The Law Society of British Columbia
• Data Security – The Case Against Cloud Computing, by Bernice Karn, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
• Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing, by Wayne Jansen and Timothy Grance, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce

Privacy Breaches

• Ontario court paves way for victims of privacy intrusion to sue snoopers, by Kirk Makin, The Globe and Mail
  
• Anatomy of a Privacy and Data Breach: Understanding the Risk and Managing a Crisis, by Adam Kardash and Robert Parisi, RIMS Canada
• What Price Privacy?, by Becky Rynor, CBA.org

Public Health

• Guidelines for HIV/AIDS in Educational Settings, Alberta Education
  
• “Children, Consent and The Health Information Protection Act (HIPA)“, FOIP Folio, Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner

Privacy and Access Cases, Investigations or Presentations

• Ownership of Counselling Notes: Neilson v. British Columbia (Office of the Infromation and Privacy Commissioner) [1998] B.C.J. No. 1640
• Social Media: A victory for free speech at the University of Calgary, by John Carpay, National Post
• Cyberbullying: R.T. v. Durham Catholic District School Board, Child and Family Services Review Board of Ontario
  
• Freedom of Information Request: Report LA-2004-001 (Lloydminster Public School Division), Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, Saskatchewan
• Freedom of Information and Privacy: Who Owns Board Records?, by Marion Hoffer and Jason Green, Education Canada
• Child Welfare Record Check: Report on Investigation into Complaint Regarding Collection of Personal Information, March 21, 2003, Northland School Division No. 61, Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner
• Personal Information on School Property: R v. Cole, 2012 SCC 53, [2012] 3 S.C.R. 34, Supreme Court of Canada
• Personal Information in the United States of America: Investigation Report F-2013-001 – Public Service Commission, Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner
• Access Requests vs. Disclosures – Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner
• Severing Made Easy – Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner