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Effective July 1, 2025, new rules under Ontario’s  will strengthen protections for personal information. The key changes include:

Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued its  which sets out its priorities and also includes the statistics reported by institutions under FIPPA and PHIPA.

This guidance provides practical advice for public sector organizations to help them identify privacy and transparency considerations when contracting with third party service providers. It includes best practices and recommendations to support proper accountability for records and personal information throughout the procurement process.

All employees—faculty, staff, students employed by Queen's—should have a basic understanding of the university's legislated responsibilities under Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. An online course is available to give you the basics on handling personal information, managing your confidential records and information, avoiding a privacy breach, and responding to access to information requests.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued new and a on how to protect against ransomware.

On July 6, 2015, Carolyn Heald joined ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ as its first Privacy Officer.

If the value of proper records management is not already obvious, there is another reason to pay attention. Recent amendments to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) now require institutions to take "reasonable measures" to preserve records in their custody or control in accordance with applicable .

In addition, it is now an offence to alter, conceal or destroy a record with the intention of denying lawful access to it.

An article in University Affairs gives a good example of why preserving universities' organizational history is important.  See the story here:  

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The Vice-Principals' Operations Committee has approved a revised Records Management Policy.

The main changes to the policy are outlined below:

1.  Responsibility for records management has shifted from the University Archives to the Office of the University Secretary and Legal Counsel.

Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued new on the use of personal email and instant messaging for business purposes.