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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...

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...

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...