> RESOURCES

Resources for:

            Businesses & Organizations

• A Guide to PIPA
• What are my organization’s responsibilities under PIPA? 
• How do I develop a privacy policy? 
• What are the OIPC’s policies and procedures? 
• What other resources are there to assist me in complying with PIPA? 
• FAQs on Hiring Process
• Identity Theft Resources
• Faxing and Emailing Personal Information
• Protecting Personal Information Away from the Office
• Use of Social Insurance Numbers by Private Sector Organizations
• Instructions for Written Inquiries
• Privacy Breach Management Policy Template (New - June 2008)
• Key Steps in Responding to Privacy Breaches (Updated June 2008)
• Privacy Breach Checklist (Updated June 2008)
• Breach Notification Assessment Tool
• Privacy Proofing Your Retail Business
• Photo-ID Guidance
• Guidelines for Overt Video Surveillance in the Private Sector
• A Guide for Retailers - Collection of Driver's Licence Numbers under Private Sector Privacy Legislation

  Physicians:

• Privacy Resources for Physicians' offices
• Physicians and Security of Personal Information
• Key Steps for Physicians in Responding to Privacy Breaches

             Members of the Public:

• What are my privacy rights under PIPA? 
• How do I request access to my personal information from an organization? 
• How can I correct errors or omissions in my personal information held by an organization? 
• How do I complain about an organization’s response to my request for access or to my complaint? 
• How do I ask the Information and Privacy Commissioner to review an organization’s response to my request or to my complaint? 
• What are the OIPC’s policies & procedures?  
• Citizen’s Guide to Effective Resolution of Disputes – This guide provides useful tips aimed at helping individuals resolve their disputes involving personal information with organizations.
• FAQs
• Instructions for Written Inquiries
• Faxing & Emailing Personal Information
• Identity Theft Resources
• Use of Social Insurance Numbers by Private Sector Organizations
• When Online Gets Out of Line (brochure from Ontario's Information & Privacy Commissioner about protecting your privacy on internet social networking sites)
• Guidelines for Overt Video Surveillance in the Private Sector

Speeches

• Radio Frequency Identification Technology & Consumer Privacy (Western Forum on Privacy Compliance - Canadian Institute (Feb. 22, 2007)
• Privacy Laws in the Workplace--Do the New Privacy Laws Make A Difference? Insight Conference, Vancouver BC (Nov. 28, 2006)
• The Impact of Privacy Legislation on Employers--CACE 3rd Annual Conference (Sept. 30, 2006)
• Transborder Data Flows & Privacy--An Update on Work in Progress (7th Annual Privacy & Security Conference - Victoria) (Feb. 10, 2006)
• The National Security Imperative--Is the Private Sector Becoming An     Arm of the State?  (Aug. 16, 2005)
• Workplace Privacy and Private Sector Privacy Laws (Apr. 25, 2003) 
• Enforcing Private Sector Privacy - One Regulator's Perspective  
  (Feb. 14, 2003)
• Privacy Protection in BC: The Road Ahead (Mar. 9 & 10, 2000)

Public Comments

• Commissioner's Letter to Health Minister About PharmaNet Bill
   (Bill 26) (2 May 2007)

Submissions

• OIPC Submission to the Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act (7 March 2008)
• General Briefing for the Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act (29 May 2007)
• Submission on the Statutory Review of PIPEDA (House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics – Nov. 29, 2006)
• Comments on Finance Canada's discussion paper on "Enhancing Canada's Anti-Money Laundering & Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime" (Oct. 3, 2005)

Parliamentary / Legislative Committee Reports

• Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act Report (April 2008)

• Report to Parliament by the PIPEDA Review Committee (2 May 2007)

• Statutory Officers (Information and Privacy Commissioner): Contingency Funding (Nov. 2003)

• Special Committee on Information Privacy in the Private Sector Report  (Mar. 20, 2001)

BC-Alberta-Federal MOU on Commissioners' Cooperation

• Memorandum of Understanding - (BC-Alberta-Federal) Commissioners (2008)

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