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 employee information
collected in connection with a federal work, undertaking or
business is regulated under
PIPEDA.
1 There are some
common law torts which may provide employees with a right to make
claims in relation some breaches of privacy that occur in the