Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 6, Protection of Privacy. Updated 27 February 2023. 47 In Review Report F-2013-007, the Commissioner found that claim numbers qualified as an “identifying number” and constituted personal information pursuant to subsection 24(1)(d) of FOIP. In Review Report 031-2015, the Commissioner found that a driver’s licence number qualified as a “identifying number” and constituted personal information pursuant to subsection 24(1)(d) of FOIP. In Review Report 289-2017 and 345-2017, the Commissioner found that Saskatchewan Immigration Nominee Program (SINP) file numbers qualified as an “identifying number” and constituted personal information pursuant to subsection 24(1)(d) of FOIP. In Review Report 117-2018, the Commissioner found that a company’s business number (the nine-digit number Canada Revenue Agency assigns to a business) did not qualify as personal information, but rather third party information pursuant to subsection 19(1)(b) of FOIP. In Investigation Report 216-2018, 218-2018, the Commissioner found that an application number qualified as an “identifying number” and constituted personal information pursuant to subsection 24(1)(d) of FOIP. Subsection 24(1)(e) Interpretation 24(1) Subject to subsections (1.1) and (2), “personal information” means personal information about an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form, and includes: … (e) the home or business address, home or business telephone number or fingerprints of the individual; An individual’s home address, telephone, facsimile (fax number) or email address is personal information under FOIP. FOIP should not be taken to say that names, addresses and telephone numbers of individuals in government records must never be disclosed. Rather, it requires that such information must not be disclosed if the protection of privacy of an individual so requires. Individuals engaged in discharging public functions obviously do not have the same expectation of privacy when so doing as when they are going about their personal or private affairs. If “personal information” is claimed as an exemption it should not be just any information
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