Privacy 101
This annual event, celebrated on January 28th, aims to raise awareness about the importance of protecting personal information.
What is Data Privacy Day?
This lab facility had to pay affected individuals after it faced a privacy breach.
What is LifeLabs?
This slippery security threat is not actually malware. It is a method of using fake emails to scam people for money.
What is a Phish?
In response to Canada's Online News Act (2023), which requires tech platforms to pay publishers for news links, this group banned Canadian news content.
Who is Meta (Facebook and Instagram)?
This hospital code is used when there is a loss of key infrastructure due to a ransomware attack.
What is a Code Grey?
This term refers to any information that can be used to identify an individual, such as a name, address, or social security number.
What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)? or Personal Information (PI)?
An affiliate of LockBit, a ransomware gang, issued an apology for the cyber attack against this hospital in December 2022.
What is SickKids?
This type of technical safeguard is used to protect patient data both in transit or at rest.
What is encryption?
The current US president made a YUGE effort to ban this social media platform in 2020, but came to its "rescue" in 2025.
What is TikTok?
This hospital policy highlights levels of privacy breaches and consequences resulting from each level.
What is the "Privacy and Confidentiality of Information" Policy?
This Ontario Act protects the privacy of personal information while providing individuals with a right of access to their own information.
What is the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)?
In December 2024, the OPP laid charges on three former hospital employees for offences under this Act.
What is the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)?
This technical safeguard involves limiting one's access to confidential information base on their role.
What is role-based access control?
This smartphone feature enables someone to find your location based on the photos you post on your Social Medias Site, by linking the location to the photo.
What is geo-tagging?
This policy (and associated tip sheet) dictates how to proceed when a patient says they don't want anyone to have access to their data.
What is the "Consent Directive (Lockbox)" Policy?
This office is responsible for overseeing the application of Ontario's access and privacy laws.
What is the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner?
Christopher Wylie, a British-Canadian data consultant, exposed this company by revealing how they harvested personal data from millions of Facebook profiles without consent for political advertising.
What is Cambridge Analytica?
This is the practice of disguising malicious software as legitimate software.
What is malware?
In late 2024/early 2025 this social media company tried to introduce "AI profiles" to interact with humans.
What is Meta?
These are new consequences introduced by the IPC for breaches of PHIPA. Individuals can be fined up to $50k, and organizations up to $500k.
What are Administrative Monetary Penalties (AMPs)?
This external facing communication informs patients and the public about how personal health information is used, collected and disclosed at SickKids and how requests to access can be made.
What is the Privacy Notice or Privacy Policy?
Considered one of the largest Canadian cyber breaches of 2023, the MOVEit hack impacted this Ontario registry and impacted 3.4 million people.
What is the BORN (Better Outcomes Registry & Network) Ontario Registry?
This is the term for a software update that fixes security vulnerabilities.
What is a security patch?
This term refers to the practice of collecting and analyzing data from social media profiles without the user's consent.
What is scraping?
This new bill will introduce AI regulations and reporting obligations for the Freedom of Information Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA).
What is Bill 194.