[Image-1] Nova Scotia’s information and privacy commissioner says the province needs a statutory duty to report breaches of individual privacy. Commissioner Catherine Tully published on Tuesday her office’s annual report on Nova Scotia’s access to information and protection of privacy laws. It found that personal information held by public bodies was “likely breached between 10 […]
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Stronger access to information needed in Nova Scotia
[Image-1] Nova Scotians are not known for their “right to know” activism. We might march in the streets to remember veterans or to protest moose culls and school closures but typically we do not march in the streets demanding transparency and accountability from our local and provincial governments. But Nova Scotians file more access to […]
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Canada really sucks at access to information
Just how bad are Canada’s access to information laws? According to global rankings from the Centre for Law and Democracy, Serbia is the world leader in providing public access to information. The Balkan nation is followed by Slovenia, while India sits in third place. Canada, bastion of freedom and totem of democracy that we are, […]
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Nova Scotia is missing core privacy protections
[Image-1] Public information is supposed to be public, and private information about the public shouldn’t be shared indiscriminately. Those are both axioms better in theory than practice. Nova Scotia has traditionally fared poorly where Freedom of Information is concerned, but some daylight is shining through. Today the FOIPOP review office released its first annual report […]
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Who files Freedom of Information requests in Nova Scotia? We’re not sure
[Image-1] It shouldn’t be that hard of a question to answer: Who’s filing Freedom of Information requests in Nova Scotia and what departments are receiving those submissions? The good news is the government does compile that data in an annual statistical report. The bad news is the last report published is for 2012. Why the […]
