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Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CIPL Responds to Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Proposals for Ensuring Appropriate Regulation of AI
On March 12, 2020, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP submitted formal comments to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada in response to…
Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
Surveillance in the Workplace
By Jeff Tinker
Workplace privacy is an evolving and somewhat muddy area of law. In Ontario, our key employment law statutes, the Employment Standards Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Act, are…
Data Protection Report
Data Privacy Day 2020 – Canadian Privacy Law Developments on the Horizon
By Julie Himo (CA), Alexis Kerr (CA), John Cassell (CA), Ann Henderson (CA)
Happy Data Privacy Day! Data Privacy Day represents a timely opportunity to highlight anticipated significant developments in Canadian privacy law in 2020 that we are monitoring following two major developments…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Canada Releases One-Year Report on National Breach Reporting Law
By Odia Kagan
On November 1st of last year, businesses became subject to new mandatory breach reporting regulations under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act…
Data Protection Report
Office of Privacy Commissioner Says It’s Status Quo on Consent Requirements for Data Processing Transfers
By Ann Henderson (CA), Julie Himo (CA), John Cassell (CA), Alexis Kerr (CA)
On September 23, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) announced, following consultation with stakeholders, that it will maintain the position set out in its 2009 guidelines that…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CIPL Responds to Canada’s Reframed Consultation on Transfers for Processing
On August 5, 2019, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP responded to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (“OPC”) reframed consultation on…
Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Canada’s Digital Charter Will Shape Changes to Its Privacy Law
By Odia Kagan
Canada has introduced a Digital Charter that will entail considerable changes to its privacy law, PIPEDA. The principles are: Universal Access: equal opportunity to participate in the digital world and…
Data Protection Report
OPC reconsiders its approach to cross-border data transfers with the Equifax decision
In a significant recent decision, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) altered the regulatory landscape when moving personal information between affiliated companies and across Canada’s border for…
Michael Geist
Does Canadian Privacy Law Matter if it Can’t be Enforced?
It has long been an article of faith among privacy watchers that Canada features better privacy protection than the United States. While the U.S. relies on binding enforcement of privacy…
Eye On Privacy
Canada’s PIPEDA Consent Guidelines Now In Effect
By Liisa Thomas
Canada’s new guidelines for obtaining consent under PIPEDA are now in effect. Last year federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner and the Alberta and British Columbia Offices of the Information…