A @thetyee exclusive, else I would not link.

Tyee: #BC Illegally Collected Personal Info Tied to the Wet’suwet’en Conflict

#Journalist: Amanda Follett Hosgood

Investigative reporters requested review of redactions from a gov't email by the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner (#OIPC.) The OIPC agreed with BC, saying the intel - from #CoastalGasLink - was illegally collected, & release could harm relations with the Hereditary Chiefs.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/26/BC-Illegally-Collected-Personal-Info-Wetsuweten/

#Wetsuweten #bcpoli

The Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia issued a statement about a case that raises issues of #transparency and claims of #privileged attorney-client communications:

LifeLabs to appeal court’s decision to release Ontario IPC and BC OIPC breach investigation report:

https://www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-centre/news-releases/lifelabs-appeal-courts-decision-release-ontario-ipc-and-bc-oipc-breach-investigation-report#:~:text=LifeLabs%20has%20announced%20that%20it,investigation%20report%20concerning%20the%202019

#OIPC #databreach #investigation

It all started with an unsecured #CrateDB that contained tweets from identifiable individuals that were stored by researchers under "mental health." I notified the University of Alberta of the exposure but also asked them whether they needed and had obtained consent for some of the research. More than one year later, they still wouldn't answer forthrightly.

So after telling me they would not communicate with me any further, but also saying they comply with freedom of information requests under #FOIP, I filed under #FOIP.

The U. of Alberta declared themselves exempt from responding to any of the requests.

I've now posted the latest update in a seemingly futile attempt to get the U. of Alberta to be transparent about harvesting and processing social media material that they are then processing as "mental health." It's in the hand of the #OIPC now.

Background and details about their lack of #transparency and the possibility that they are collecting info on minor children without parents' knowledge or consent at:

https://pogowasright.org/update-university-of-alberta-says-they-comply-with-they-freedom-of-information-and-protection-of-privacy-foip-act-but-then-claims-exemption-when-you-file/

#AI #ethics #research #consent #Alberta #dataleak #databreach

@brett

Four Canadian Tire stores in BC were found to have broken privacy laws from 2018 to 2021 for using facial recognition technology (#FRT) to compare customer’s faces to a database of “persons of interest”

They did not obtain customer’s consent, adequately notify customers, or demonstrate a reasonable purpose for using this tech

#CdnTech #Privacy #OIPC

https://www.oipc.bc.ca/news/investigation-report-23-02-canadian-tire-associate-dealers-use-of-facial-recognition-technology/