The 2022-2023 edition also includes the regulations under the FIPPA and MFIPPA as in force at June 1, 2022. The Commissioners orders summarized are those issued on or before April 30, 2022. The Table of Commissioners Orders and Privacy Complaint Reports has been fully updated. The commissioner’s and court decisions summarized are those made on or before April 30, 2022. Legislation text currency date: Ontario Gazette Vol. 154:34 (August 21, 2022).

Noteworthy decisions new in this edition include, among others:

• Order PO-4190 (Re Ministry of the Solicitor General; September 27, 2021): The Ministry is ordered to distort the caller’s voice in the 911 call so that the record will no longer contain the caller’s personal information which would include the caller being identifiable via their undistorted voice.

• YUDC v. Information and Privacy Commissioner, 2022 ONSC 1755 (Ont. Div. Ct.), upholding Reconsideration Order PO-4029-R (Re York University; February 14, 2020): The assessment that the adjudicator was required to make on the control issue pursuant to National Defence was a contextual one, considering all of the relevant circumstances. And that is what she did.

• Order MO-4101 (Re Halton District School Board; August 31, 2021): To qualify as a purpose other than to obtain access, the requester would need to have an improper objective above and beyond a collateral intention to use the information in some legitimate manner. The requests were for various records related to a student’s math mark in a high school course, and to an in-class chemistry experiment. The requests were made as part of an improper objective to secure higher marks for the student. Accordingly, the requests are frivolous or vexatious.