Makes you wonder what else the United Corruption Party is up to when they want to hide it so badly. Unreal. 😡 (This regards the current government in of the province of Alberta in Canada)

#UCP #ucpalberta #Alberta #corruption #HidingInPlainSight #FOIP

https://www.change.org/p/urge-lt-gov-lakhani-to-withhold-royal-assent-for-bill-34-access-to-information-act

OK, so a bit more on the issue with the University of Alberta and the exposed database of tweets related to "mental health:"

I mulled over the uni's denial of my #FOIP request some more. They claimed none of my questions would be answered as it all falls under "research information."

I think that's an overly broad approach to "research information," and the public has a right to know about policies and protections that researchers adopted for a study. I did not ask for any data. Hell, I had the data because they left it unsecured. All I asked was whether they needed consent, whether they obtained consent, how they knew they weren't collecting tweets from minor children, etc.

I think those are all good questions.

So now I have filed an appeal of their denial to the Commissioner's office.

Background: 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/

We'll see what happens next.

@brett

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

"Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that courts take a dim view of delay being used to neuter public attempts to understand how important decisions are made.

'The requesting parties have been practically denied access to the information they are entitled to at law and this court will not abet this conduct through the availability of judicial review,' he wrote in a judgment released Friday."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/judge-alberta-coal-documents-1.7174263

#ableg #alberta #cdnpoli #canada #coal #mining #foi #foia #foip #atip