GeneralWhat Alberta Landlords Can Ask on a Rental Application Under PIPA
PIPA limits what Alberta landlords collect from applicants. A question-by-question table from the privacy commissioner's guidance, plus retention rules.
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Rights & LegalTenant Privacy and Data Protection for Property Managers: PIPEDA, Screening, Cameras, and the Files You Keep
Every rental file is a privacy file: applications, credit checks, IDs, camera footage, smart-entry logs. Under PIPEDA, landlords and property managers are data custodians with real obligations — consent, purpose limits, safeguards, 30-day access requests, and mandatory breach reporting with fines up to $100,000. Here's
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Rights & LegalOnline Showings and Self-Showings in Ontario: The Tech, the Entry Rules, and the Privacy Lines
Virtual tours, video walkthroughs, and lockbox self-showings promise to fill vacancies faster — but Ontario's entry rules didn't get the memo. This guide maps where showing tech is genuinely legal and useful (vacant units, video pre-screening), where it collides with the RTA (self-showings in occupied units, filming a
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Screening & ApplicationsBackground Checks Beyond Credit: What Ontario Landlords Can (and Can't) Legally Check
A credit check is just one piece of tenant screening — and the moment you go beyond it, the legal lines get sharp. Criminal record checks, references, employment and income verification, eviction history, even a social-media search: each is governed by the Human Rights Code, Ontario's screening regulation, and privacy
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