This is your Access and Privacy News Summary for Saturday, September 27th.

We hope everyone’s had a great Right to Know Week.

It’s been a big one—with privacy commissioners at both the national and provincial levels releasing major findings and a wave of stories that give us plenty to dig into.

We’ll begin here in British Columbia, where an unprecedented audit of one of the province’s largest public bodies found serious failures to comply with access to information law. Then we’ll scan access stories from across the country.

On the privacy side, TikTok faces stinging criticism from federal and provincial watchdogs for failing to protect children’s data. We’ll also track the fallout from recent data breaches, including new legislation in Nova Scotia.

Internationally, the United States continues to rewrite long-standing rules, with Trump and his allies pressing to expand presidential power, criminalize antifascist sentiment, and gain access to sensitive voter information. And we’ll close with updates on Canada’s own controversial Bills C-2 and C-4, which FIPA will be following closely in the weeks ahead.

Show Notes: https://fipa.bc.ca/nm/20250927-access-and-privacy-online

Individual Stories: https://fipa.bc.ca/tag/2025-season-episode-39

Protect your rights, Canadian MPs need to:

Stop Bill C-2 https://iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2/

Stop Bill C-4 Part 4 https://fipa.bc.ca/bill-c-4-2025/

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Writing: Shaun Fisk | Production: Patrick Farnsworth | Music: Breakmaster Cylinder

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