Report 2007-002 Released

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Phil Wall, has released his Report 2007-002 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. A summary of the report is included below.

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Report Report 2007-002

Report Date: February 5, 2007

Public Body: Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development

Summary: The applicant applied under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the �ATIPPA�) for access to records in the custody of the Department of Innovation, Trade and Rural Development (the Department). The Department determined that releasing the requested information had the potential to affect the business interests of the third party as contemplated by section 27 of the ATIPPA. The third party filed with the Department an objection to the release of portions of the information. The Department considered the third party�s objections, and decided to sever some additional information based on the third party�s position, but the Department advised the third party that it intended to release the remainder of the information as it had originally intended. The third party then filed a Request for Review with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner with the intention of preventing the majority of the information from being released to the applicant. The commissioner found that the third party had not provided a sufficient basis to allow the commissioner to recommend that additional information be severed on the basis of section 27 above and beyond that which the Department had decided to release.

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Media contact:
Sandy Hounsell
Executive Director
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309

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