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Traffic Classifiers

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2022-01
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Friday, April 8, 2022

Yukon's Department of Highways and Public Works, Transportation and Engineering Branch (TEB) is responsible for a variety of activities, including transportation planning, monitoring the condition of transportation infrastructure for planning and management purposes and road infrastructure safety analysis. As a part of carrying out these responsibilities, TEB leads and supports the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) within the Yukon Government (YG).

ITS is implementing a Traffic Classifier system (the" System") for the purpose of traffic safety analysis and improvement. The system consists of a camera ("Camera") that captures live stream video, which is connected to the traffic classifier, the TrafficEmbedded unit. ("Unit"). The Unit contains an Al engine (FLOW) which analyzes the video stream and extracts data. These non-image traffic insights are then sent to a FLOW Insights dashboard for use within TEB. As soon as the image is processed, there is no longer any personal information included in the system, it is only analytics. A System visualization is attached in Appendix E.

The non-image traffic insights, containing no personal information, can also be sent on further and used for smart city platforms, LED signs and as a basis for signal/traffic lights control.

The purpose of the System is to capture how roads, sidewalks, airports, and multiuse trails are used and at what volume allow YG to make informed decisions regarding speeds, safety information and future planning. The System works by classifying the images from the Camera according to specific parameters. The classifications include large mammal, vehicle, plane, bike, person, and others. The System can count the number of each class, track trajectories, near misses and collisions between and among classes, speed, traffic violations, and more. The information can be used by TEB to make changes to traffic lights, automatically activate roadside signs or pedestrian signals and other safety related information. TEB can also use the information to understand the frequency of use of various roads and pathways.

The only personal information collected by the System is the live-stream video captured by the camera and fed into the Unit. This could be video of a person or of their vehicle. There is no storage of the image within the Camera or Unit. Once the video stream reaches the Unit there is no further transmission of the images. There is no ability to go into the System and pull historical video feeds. All analysis occurs in real-time, in milliseconds, within the Unit.
This is not a surveillance system, rather a classification and counting system.

During system set up and maintenance, access can be granted to the live video stream in order to configure conditions for analysis and to train the artificial intelligence in classifying images. There are two options for HPW-TEB staff to access the live feed, either they will need to take a computer to the traffic classifier location, or they can connect the traffic classifier to the internet and can then access the video feed via VPN. Data From Sky, the Unit creator, can also access the live video stream, only when their specific VPN is enabled by TEB staff, and assist in system configuration and troubleshooting. The video feed is not accessed on any sort of regular basis or used for other purposes.

Auth0

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2022-002
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Wednesday, April 6, 2022

To manage the user authentication and log on to the Yukon Government ("YG") online systems and services, YG has decided to use the Auth0 Authenticator to facilitate a Single Sign on (“SSO”). SSO occurs when a user logs in to one application and is then signed into other applications automatically, regardless of the platform, technology, or domain the user is using. Citizens or other users sign in in a single time and are then logged on to any of the affiliated systems/services they are authorized to utilize.
Auth0 will be used by YG staff (“Staff Users”) to manage the log-on process to multiple government systems, as well as by members of the public (“Public Users”) who require access to various YG government online services. Though the Staff and Public Users will follow largely the same process, they are discussed separately in the Privacy Impact Assessment to ensure that the differences are documented.
The Department of Highways and Public Works (“HPW”) is the department responsible for the management of Auth0 and the collection of the information, however, Auth0 may be used by any YG Department of program area for their systems. As such, this PIA will focus on the broad use of Auth0 throughout YG.

Canto Cumulus System

Privacy Impact Assessment #: TC-PIA-2022-01
Public Body Name : Tourism and Culture
Date of Approval: Monday, April 4, 2022

The Tourism and Culture Department -Visitor Services, Photography Unit (Photo Unit) of the Yukon Government (YG) manages the database for Government of Yukon photography. It supports the Tourism and Culture purpose of supporting, protecting, promoting and enhancing Yukon’s tourism, culture, heritage and arts sectors for the benefit of Yukoners and visitors.
The Photo Unit maintains a significant catalogue of digital media, including photos and videos, for promotional and marketing materials at YG. It has been using an on-premises solution for over 20 years, provided by Cumulus software. Since Cumulus will no longer be supporting this software, the Photo Unit is required to find an alternative software solution for their Digital Asset Management (DAM) needs.
To replace the legacy system, Cumulus is shifting to a cloud-based solution. Canto Cumulus (“Canto”, https://www.canto.com) is a DAM software service that will allow for the collection, storage, organization, filtering, and searching of digital images, videos, and other media. The Photo Unit wishes to use this system to manage their inventory of digital media. Canto is seen as software for the 21st century and will allow for migration of the current digital assets from the on-premises software.
A PIA for this software system has been deemed necessary because it will manage digital media which may display identifiable people. Names and other details of the individual are not included in the photos, or their meta data, unless the image is of an individual in their work capacity, such as a member of the YG cabinet or the name of a business owner whose photo is taken for promotion of that business.
Note: Canto also offers a search feature based on recognizable faces, and thus employs a form of biometric identification. This feature has been disabled within the system at the Administrative user level. Should consideration be given to enabling this ability, this PIA will be amended accordingly.

Sport and Recreation eServices Forms

Privacy Impact Assessment #: CS-PIA-2022-01
Public Body Name : Community Services
Date of Approval: Friday, March 25, 2022

We are updating the reporting and application forms for both YRAC and Yukon Sport for Life (YS4L) grants to move to an online format. The primary reason we are doing this is to make the application and reporting process easier for our clients – the grant recipients. The secondary reason is to make the process easier for the adjudication committee. The tertiary reason is to make the process more efficient for Sport and Recreation Branch (SARB) employees and to reduce the possibility of error.
Grant recipients, the Yukon Recreation Advisory Committee (YRAC) adjudication committee, SARB staff, and the general public (due to increased efficiency of government staff and reduced errors) will all benefit from this. The updated forms will be ready for use by March 1, 2022.

YuDriv Online Services

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2022-03
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Monday, February 28, 2022

The Department of Highways and Public Works (“HPW”) has created a suite of Online Services (“OLS”) for online access to selected services and documents provided by their Transport Services Branch (“TSB”). The OLS will allow for authenticated Online Users to access a suite of services online, without the need to present in-person at a government office. The OLS will facilitate members of the public having online, self-serve, access to several TSB services currently provided in person at TSB locations across the territory.

The OLS system will be integrated within the existing YuDriv system, which is a staff-facing electronic information management system used across TSB to manage workflows, provide individuals with permits and other documentation, and manage any required payments. YuDriv is an application-based solution that is hosted on YG servers, with data residing in Yukon. The YuDriv system will be the ‘source of truth’ for the OLS and all records and requests will be matched against the records held in YuDriv.

Online Users of the OLS will access the e-services through an account they create and managed online. The online account will gain access to OLS by binding the online account to a TSB client. Online accounts are created by the user online by entering basic account information and receiving an activation key. Online users can gain access to OLS only by binding the HPW online account to the HPW TSB YuDriv user. OLS will use an online account process that can easily be converted to use MyYukon when it is available

COVID-19 Dashboard ArcGIS

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HSS-PIA-2022-05
Public Body Name : Health and Social Services
Date of Approval: Friday, February 11, 2022

In effort to continue to prevent and reduce serious harm to the health and safety of Yukoners, enable individuals and organizations to assess whether such risks exists and mitigate them effectively, and ensure open access to records held by the Department of Health and Social Services (HSS) that is in the public interest, the department will be implementing a public-facing COVID-19 dashboard. This dashboard will ensure consistency in data availability, accuracy, and provide the public with clearly defined COVID-19 data that is relevant to the current pandemic and public health needs. The dashboard will leverage an existing information system, ArcGIS. No significant changes to the ArcGIS system will occur.

The COVID-19 dashboard contains both unidentifiable information and possibly identifiable personal health information. The department head is satisfied that open access of the COVID-19 data through the dashboard is in the public interest to make the information available without requiring an access request in accordance with the Access to Information and Privacy Protection Act s.39(c). The decision for unidentifiable information considered:
• Public interest, which is confirmed by the continued and increased volume requests for COVID-19 data by First Nation governments, community leaders, general public, media, and Yukon Government departments.
This decision to include possibly identifiable personal health information considered:
• Prevention or reduction of a risk of serious harm to the health and safety of individuals (Health Information Privacy and Management Act (HIPMA) s.58(h));
• Enabling the assessment of whether a risk of serious harm to the health and safety of individuals (HIPMA s.58(h));
• Potential privacy implications of disclosing information that could possible be re-identified in combination with another information resources (HIPMA s.2 ‘identifying information’, s.14, s.15, and s.16); and

This decision was documented in the Issue Note titled, ‘Updating external data sharing using a COVID-19 dashboard’ and approved by the Deputy Minister of HSS and signed-off by the Minister of HSS on January 5, 2022.

Online Daily Campground Permit

Privacy Impact Assessment #: ENV-PIA-2022-01
Public Body Name : Environment
Date of Approval: Monday, January 17, 2022

The Government of Yukon released the Yukon Parks Strategy in 2020. YG is committed to developing a new payment option to allow people to pre-pay for camping online. We are calling this new product the Online Daily Campground Permit.

The Online Daily Campground Permit will be developed and hosted on the POSSE platform, which YG currently uses to sell hunting and fishing licenses, and the Yukon resident annual campground permits. The Online Daily Campground Permit will be a new saleable item on the Posse platform. The user interface is the Environment Yukon eServices account.

ATIPP Central Shared Service

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HPW-PIA-2021-01
Public Body Name : Highways and Public Works
Date of Approval: Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The central shared service Access and Privacy Analyst have the role of Designated Access Officer (DAO) for client public bodies. A DAO is a public body's employee designated in writing as per section 87 (1) of the ATIPP Act. From this point forward in this PIA, the central shared service Access and Privacy Analysts will be referred to as DAOS.

This initiative produces capacity for public bodies to comply with the ATIPP Act through delivery of a centralized service for response to access requests for information. The DAOS deliver services for the public bodies who engage in the centralized service. The DAOs work in a central location in the ATIPP Office, have access to joint resources, and apply a consistent central process to handle and respond to access requests.

Yukon Midwifery Program

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HSS-PIA-2021-04
Public Body Name : Health and Social Services
Date of Approval: Monday, November 1, 2021

This PIA will focus on the collection, use, and disclosure of personal and personal health information in relation to Yukon Midwifery Program. The Yukon Government has determined that midwifery services and care are to be added as a model of care. Midwifery services have been regulated under the Midwifery Regulations of the Health Professionals Act and it is expected that Midwives will being delivering babies within Whitehorse by Summer 2022. Yukon midwives are employees of the Yukon Department of Health and Social Services ("HSS"), and midwifery services are covered for all eligible Yukoners.

Supervised Consumption Site

Privacy Impact Assessment #: HSS-PIA-2021-03
Public Body Name : Health and Social Services
Date of Approval: Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Nationally, opioid and other substance use rates have increased steadily over the past decade. The increase in use rates, coupled with other factors such as unsafe illegal supply and the Covid-19 pandemic, has led to an increase in injury and overdoses. The rate of the injury and overdose resulting from substance use has led many jurisdictions throughout Canada to open Supervised Consumption Sites (“SCS”) as a way of reducing harm directly and indirectly resulting from substance use.

SCS are medically supervised facilities that provide a safer, hygienic environment in which individuals can consume drugs under the supervision of a health care professional without the risk of arrest for drug possession. Individuals consume their substances under the supervision of a staff member who is trained to spot the signs of, and reverse, overdose. SCS do not provide the substances. SCS operate based on an approved temporary or permanent exemption issued by Health Canada.

SCS have seen success in lowering overdose, hospitalization, and death rates, as well as providing support services (such as counselling, medical treatment, and detox) to populations that have been historically hard to reach with government sponsored programs. Yukon has not been immune to this increase in user rates and, to quote Yukon’s then Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brendan Hanley on April 22, 2021 "The pace of opioid deaths [in Yukon] is continuing at a terrifying rate". In 2020 the Department of Health and Social Services (“HSS”), Mental Wellness and Substance Use Services (“MWSU”) Branch was mandated to create a SCS program for the health and safety of individuals. The opening of the SCS is supported by Dr. Hanley who stated on April 22, 2021: “This may seem like it's endorsing or supporting drug use, but in fact what happens is that overdoses are prevented and people do get connected to supports, medical care counselling, access to treatment".

Yukon’s SCS will operate under a temporary exemption from the Controlled Substances Directorate, Health Canada that provides the necessary authority to operate a supervised consumption site. The exemption expires September 30, 2022. YG will work to secure a permanent exemption under 56(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.