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Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner is recommending the Ministry of Central Services come up with a plan for managing several thousand backup tapes for information from more than two dozen government ministries and agencies.

Released this month by privacy commissioner Ron Kruzeniski, the report examined the ministry’s use of backup tape technology and potential issues with it as it pertains to The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP).

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“Digital records have introduced many challenges to proper records and information management,” Kruzeniski wrote. “My office, along with other Information and Privacy Commissioners across Canada, continue to review and report on some of these challenges as it relates to compliance with access and privacy legislations.”

According to the report, the focus was on “the critical data that Central Services copies onto backup tapes and an assessment of how FOIP applies to such data, as well as how Central Services manages backup tapes.”