Guide to FOIP-Chapter 6

Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 6, Protection of Privacy. Updated 27 February 2023. 169 information for confirming identity (i.e., authentication and verification purposes) and for determining eligibility of individuals for government programs.506 Accurate means careful, precise, lacking errors.507 Inaccurate information means wrong, incomplete, or misleading information or information that does not reflect the truth.508 Complete means including every item or element, without omissions or deficiencies; not lacking in any element or particular. Information is complete when all the information necessary for the administrative purpose, and only the information necessary, is used.509 FOIP does not define the phrase “reasonably possible”. However, the dictionary meanings of these words are as follows: Reasonably possible: Reasonable means what a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances.510 This standard acknowledges that reasonable “does not mean perfect”.511 It means fair, proper, moderate under the circumstances.512 Possible means capable of existing, happening or being achieved.513 506 Government of Canada, Treasury Board Secretariat, Access to information and privacy, Policies, directives, standards and guidelines. Available at Policy on Privacy Protection- Canada.ca. 507 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 7, p. 251. See also Government of Manitoba, FIPPA for Public Bodies – Resource Manual, Chapter 6, Protection of Privacy at p. 6-95. Available at Chapter (gov.mb.ca). Accessed December 13, 2022. 508 British Columbia Government Services, FOIPPA Policy Definitions at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/policiesprocedures/foippa-manual/policy-definitions. Accessed April 23, 2020. 509 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 7, p. 251. See also Government of Manitoba, FIPPA for Public Bodies – Resource Manual, Chapter 6, Protection of Privacy at p. 6-95. Available at Chapter (gov.mb.ca). Accessed December 13, 2022. 510 British Columbia’s Personal Information Protection Act, SBC 2003, c 63 at section 2 and subsection 4(1). See also section 2 of Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act, SA 2003, c P-6.5 and the joint resource by the Service Alberta and Alberta IPC titled, A Guide for Businesses and Organizations on the Personal Information Protection Act at p. 9. 511 BC IPC Investigation Report F06-01 at [49]. 512 Garner, Bryan A., 2019. Black’s Law Dictionary, 11th Edition. St. Paul, Minn.: West Group at p 1518. See also Government of Manitoba, FIPPA for Public Bodies – Resource Manual, Chapter 6, Protection of Privacy at p. 6-96. Available at Chapter (gov.mb.ca). Accessed December 13, 2022. 513 See SK OIPC Review Report 082-2019, 083-2019 at [72] Originates from Pearsall, Judy, Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th Ed., (Oxford University Press) at p. 1117.

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