Solving the Privacy Puzzle: PIPA Conference 2009

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Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) is independent from government and monitors and enforces British Columbia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIPPA) and Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). FOIPPA allows access to information held by public bodies (such as ministries, universities and hospitals) and determines how public bodies may collect, use and disclose personal information. PIPA sets out how private organizations (including businesses, charities, associations and labour organizations) may collect, use and disclose personal information.

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta

The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta is the regulatory body for the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the FOIP Act), the Health Information Act/ (HIA) and the Personal Information Protection Act(PIPA).

In addition, we would like to recognize the input and assistance we receive from our external PIPA Conference Agenda Planning Committee made up of twelve volunteers from a variety of organizations, government regulatory agencies and other Privacy Commissioner's offices.