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News Summary June 6th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, June 6th. This week, we begin in Alberta, where new FIPA-Ipsos polling shows strong public support for enforceable privacy rules after the exposure of voter information for 2.9 million Albertans. We’ll also look at Alberta’s new combined...

New Alberta polling conducted by Ipsos for FIPA shows a clear public expectation: voter information should be protected by privacy law, not left to political-party self-regulation.

Key findings:
• 84% say the same private-sector privacy laws should apply.
• 48% prefer shared oversight by elections agencies and privacy commissioners.
• Only 4% support broad political access with fewer privacy rules.

Learn more: www.fipa.bc.ca/2026-fipa-ipsos-alberta-survey

News Summary May 30th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 30th. This week, we begin in Ottawa, where a number of major files moved forward. The federal government says it will amend parts of its contentious lawful access bill, while civil liberties groups continue warning that Bill C-22 could e...

News Summary May 23rd, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 23rd. This week, privacy and transparency are colliding with some of the biggest political and public policy questions in the country. We begin with a network update on Bill C-22, the federal lawful access bill that civil liberties group...

Spotlight: The Cyberattack on Canvas and Its Fallout In last week’s News Summary for May 16th, we at FIPA spotlighted the fallout from a cyberattack on the online learning platform Canvas, the inherent risk of education systems relying on outside platforms for essential functions, and that when one is compromised, the impact can spread across thousa...

Spotlight: The Privacy Concerns of Connected Cars In last week’s News Summary for May 16th, we at FIPA spotlighted privacy concerns regarding connected cars, namely major gaps in automakers’ privacy policies when measured against Canadian data-protection principles. We really wanted to highlight that story, and so we’re presenting it again on...

News Summary May 16th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 16th. This week, we begin in Alberta, where the voter list breach continues to widen—with Elections Alberta warning that the number of people who accessed the data may be incomplete, while privacy, election, and police investigations c...

Commentary: Information misuse puts you at risk FIPA President Mike Larsen reflects on the Alberta elector data breach. In this commentary, he considers that when political parties are left outside meaningful privacy rules, sensitive democratic data can be collected, shared, and exposed without proper accountability. Mike connects the Alberta bre...

News Summary May 9th, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 9th. This week, we begin with the still-unfolding Alberta voter list breach, where nearly three million electors' personal information may have been exposed through a searchable database tied to separatist organizing. The latest developm...

News Summary May 2nd, 2026 This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, May 2nd. This week, we begin with a developing voter privacy story out of Alberta. Elections Alberta says there was no breach of its own systems—but that a copy of the provincial List of Electors, provided to a legitimate political recipie...