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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In late November, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and the Competition Bureau (Bureau) announced the issuance of 36 warning letters to various mobile app companies in Canada. The letters are reported to have raised potential concerns under Canadas anti-spam legislation (CASL), the  Personal Inform...

Bottom Line On November 17, 2020, the Federal Government introduced Bill C-11, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 ("Bill C-11"). While Bill C-11 has only passed First Reading at the time of writing this update, it proposes a number of changes that would impact the way that organizations handle personal information. Significantly, Bill C-11 would replace Part 1 of the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (" PIPEDA") with the new CPPA"). PIPEDA, federally regulated emplo...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The DCIA was introduced on November 17, 2020, to replace Canadas current national privacy law for the private sector, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). PIPEDA came into force in April 2000, and as it has been two decades since the law came into effect, the Canadian government has been signaling that it is working on an update for quite some time. The s...

Published: December 18th, 2020 However, the chief privacy officer for one of the country’s biggest firms warned organizations not to be complacent. “From an operational and implementation perspective that [18 months] has to be the bare minimum because there is so much to digest,” Deborah Evans of Rogers Communications said Thursday during a webinar sponsored by the Canadian branch of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. “Every time I read the legislation I come back ...

[co-author: Tawanna Lee] On November 17, 2020, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry introduced Bill C-11, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, which proposes a new privacy law called the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA). The CPPA would overhaul Canadian privacy law and heighten the privacy obligations for businesses, including U.S.-based business, that are engaged in commercial activity in Canada and collect, use, or disclose the personal information of individuals...

Ontario Privacy Law Overview Despite growing concerns about privacy protection, the Ontario government has generally taken a limited approach to employee privacy legislation. While the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA) governs personal information held by provincially-regulated private sector organizations when it is collected, used or disclosed in the course of commercial activities, it does not apply to employee information. Currently in Ontario, only emp...

Data Breach at Desjardins Largest Ever in Canada’s Financial Services Sector, Privacy Watchdog Says A data breach that caused nearly 9.7 million Canadians’ personal information to be stolen—the largest ever in Canada’s financial services—was due to gaps in administrative and technology safeguards at Desjardins, a privacy watchdog reported. In an investigative report released on Monday, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said Desjardins, a financial institution that...

Largest financial-data breach in Canada due to security gaps: privacy watchdog By Jolson Lim. Published on Dec 14, 2020 1:21pm Desjardins Group offices in Montreal (Paju/Wikimedia Commons) The personal data of nearly 9.7 million Canadians was stolen between 2017 and 2019 due to gaps in the security at Desjardins, the largest federation of credit unions in North America, Canada’s privacy commissioner reported on Monday. Personal information, including first and last names, birthday...