Here is a deck I just put together for the The Osgoode Certificate in Privacy & Cybersecurity Law that gives a high-level perspective on the state of FOI, in particular given (a) the free flow of information that can eviscerate practical obscurity and (b) the serious cyber threat that’s facing our public institutions. As I said in the webinar itself, I’m so pleased that Osgoode PDP has integrated an FOI unit into into its privacy and cyber program given it is such a driver of core “information law.”
For related content see this short paper, Threat Exchanges and Freedom of Information Legislation, 2019 CanLIIDocs 3716. And here’s a blog post from the archives that with some good principled discussion that I refer to – Principles endorsed in Arar secrecy decision.
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