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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As part of our blog series on the proposed changes to Canadas private sector privacy laws, this post examines the proposed consent rules under the new regime for processing personal information. As noted previously, Canadas private sector privacy laws will change with the introduction of Bill C-11. Named the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, Bill C-11 seeks to modernize Canadian priv...

New York-based Clearview AI’s practice of vacuuming up millions of images of Canadians and offering facial recognition services for customers constituted illegal “mass surveillance,” according to a probe by four privacy commissioners. The joint federal, B.C., Alberta and Quebec investigation released Wednesday found that Clearview broke federal and provincial privacy laws when it gathered the faces of Canadians — including children — catalogued their biometrics and then offered it as ...

Four of Canada’s privacy commissioners have denounced the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. The software firm has been used by law enforcement agencies around the world – including Toronto – allowing them to follow up on potential suspects with Clearview’s massive profile database. But Clearview’s scraping of billions of images of Canadians from across the internet represented mass surveillance and was a clear violation of their privacy rights, the commissioners s...

Amazon recorded an increase of close to 800 per cent in user data requests by governments in the last half 2020, according to its transparency report released Sunday. In total, the company processed 27,664 legal orders from government agencies around the world in the form of subpoenas, search warrants and court actions. Most government demands came from European countries, with nine per cent coming from other countries, according to the report. The department of Public Safety did not respond t...

Autocorp Pushes Industry Towards Credit First with New Product, askAVA Autocorp is disrupting the automotive industry with a fresh take on how customers buy and interact with dealerships. askAVAs credit first approach is the first product in Canada that allows consumers and dealerships access to credit information without impacting scores. OTTAWA, ON / ACCESSWIRE / January 13, 2021 / Autocorp, a Canadian fintech company, announced today that they have created a new product that brings soft-pull...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a previous life, I sat in on a data governance meeting as a consultant. During the conversation, the team was discussing an automated decision-making process where one of the pieces of information collected was an individuals age. Where an individual was under a certain age, they were disqualified and pre-screened out of using a product. Then, one of the team members spoke up and raised a ...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In November 2020, Canadian regulators issued a public reminder to companies involved in the mobile applications industry about their legal obligations under Canadas Anti-Spam Legislation (commonly known as "CASL") and other statutes regarding the promotion, installation and use of mobile apps. The regulatory guidance is important for all organizations that distribute mobile apps to their emp...

  TORONTO -- Customers’ names, shipping and billing addresses, order dates, methods of payment and the last four digits of the credit cards used were on full display for orders of a $1,500 laptop computer in Ontario, a $700 spin bike in Saskatchewan, and more than $1,100 worth of baby gear in B.C. These are just a few samples of Walmart.ca orders CTVNews.ca was able to call up on the retailer’s website Tuesday that demonstrated the ease with which customer information could be accidenta...

Now in its Second Reading, Bill C-11, the Consumer Privacy Protection Act ("CPPA"), is moving ever closer to adoption. The opening remarks by the Bills sponsor, MP Navdeep Bains, emphasized the laws focus on control and consent with the aim of making privacy compliance more straightforward and transparent for Canadians who have seen an increase in online presence and activity since the pandemic began. As promised in our previous blog post, we begin our exploration of a few old and new concepts...

Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Richard Nesbitt is an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Michael King is an associate professor of finance and the Lansdowne Chair in Finance at the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School ...