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Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner
December 20, 2011

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner – Report A-2011-017 Released

The Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ed Ring, has released his Report A-2011-017 under authority of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. A summary of the Report is included below.

To view the Report in its entirety, please go to www.oipc.nl.ca/accessreports.htm 

Report: A-2011-017
Report Date: December 15, 2011
Public Body: College of the North Atlantic

Summary: The Applicant applied under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“the ATIPPA”) to the College of the North Atlantic (“the College”) for access to e-mail records containing references to himself and to another individual. The College disclosed a number of records, some of which it had severed claiming several exceptions to disclosure. The Applicant asked the Commissioner to review the severing and the way in which the search had been conducted. In particular, the Applicant requested that a manual search be performed to determine whether e-mails existed which referenced the Applicant without using his name. The Commissioner concluded that the severing had been done appropriately and that the College had conducted a reasonable search. The Commissioner also concluded that it would be unreasonable to request that the College conduct the manual search requested by the Applicant given that the expenditure of time and effort required would be disproportionate to any benefit to be achieved.

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Media contact:
Ed Ring
Information and Privacy Commissioner
709-729-6309

2011 12 20             10:35 a.m.

 
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