Brian Beamish

• Hamilton police have tried controversial facial recognition app Clearview AI, says deputy chief

  Deputy Chief Frank Bergen says the force is not using Clearview AI, but will continue to explore any technology that helps with investigations.

  Politics

  Feb 21, 2020
  
• Ontario privacy watchdog criticizes secrecy about facilities that provide assisted dying

  Privacy commissioner Brian Beamish is calling on the provincial government to make information identifying public facilities that provide medically assisted deaths available to those who request it.

  Health

  Jun 21, 2017
  
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• Ontario environment ministry staff changed FOI request dates: watchdog

  Auditors are investigating five Ontario government ministries after staff at the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change altered dates on freedom of information requests to improve their compliance statistics.

  Politics

  Dec 19, 2016
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• Pan Am senior staff did not erase hard drives to avoid accountability: watchdog

  Ontario's information and privacy commissioner says executives at Toronto's Pan Am Games committee didn't get rid of their hard drives in order to avoid accountability.

  Politics

  Sep 29, 2016
• Ontario government should consider cutting access to information fees: watchdog

  Ontario's information and privacy commissioner says the province should consider reducing or eliminating some of the fees charged for access-to-information requests.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2016
• Ontario NDP, PCs want investigation of erased Pan Am Games hard drives

  Ontario's opposition parties are asking both the police and the information and privacy commissioner to investigate hard drives from the Pan Am Games that were erased.

  Politics

  Jun 9, 2016
• Personal email, BBMs subject to records requests, watchdog tells public servants

  An Ontario watchdog is telling bureaucrats their personal email and BlackBerry Messenger accounts are subject to records requests.

  Jun 7, 2016
• Privacy commissioner finds Rouge Valley hospital staff sold patient info

  Ontario's privacy commissioner says Rouge Valley hospital in Toronto failed to put reasonable safeguards in place to protect patients' privacy after the sale of the personal information of up to 14,000 new mothers.

  Politics

  Dec 16, 2014