PIPEDA amendments in force April 1
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. We have mentioned before that the Anti-Spam act (bill c-28) will not come into force until the fall. (It may potentially be delayed...
View ArticleDevil is in the defaults
June 18 2012 for the London Free Press Read this on Canoe Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart is concerned that without financial penalties, some social media companies will continue to...
View ArticleHere’s how changes to PIPEDA would work
For the London Free Press – July 8, 2013 – Read this at lfpress.com The Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently released a report recommending reforms to the Personal Information Protection and...
View ArticleDigital Privacy Act amends PIPEDA
Several amendments were made last week to PIPEDA, the federal private sector privacy legislation. This has been sitting around in draft for a long time. Except for sections creating a new mandatory...
View ArticlePrivacy Commissioner posts new case summaries
Privacy breaches and complaints can often be resolved cooperatively. We usually hear about the large, dramatic, far reaching breaches more so than the smaller ones that get resolved. The privacy...
View ArticlePrivacy and Cyber Security Seminar
I’m one of 3 speakers at a seminar on privacy and cyber security on the morning of April 21. Topics include evolving privacy legal issues, examples of cyber security exploits, and how to manage the...
View ArticlePIPEDA privacy breach notification regulations published for comment
The draft privacy breach regulations under PIPEDA have just been published. They are open for comment for 30 days. These regulations detail the mechanics of notifying the Privacy Commissioner and...
View ArticlePIPEDA privacy breach notification coming Nov 1
Effective Nov 1, 2018, businesses that have a privacy breach must give notice of the breach under PIPEDA – the privacy legislation affecting the private sector in most Canadian provinces. The final...
View ArticleAre you ready for PIPEDA’s privacy breach recording obligation?
In a recent blog post I talked about the new privacy breach notification requirements coming under PIPEDA this November 1. I said that perhaps the most challenging aspect is a requirement to maintain a...
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