Bill C-11 needs an overhaul, says privacy commissioner By Jolson Lim. Published on May 11, 2021 5:34pm Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien, pictured in September 2016 (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
A bill designed to modernize privacy laws for Canada’s private sector would give consumers less control of their personal data and organizations more power to use it to make money, Canada’s privacy commissioner says.
Bill C-11 would be “a step back overall” from current privacy laws, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said in a submission to the House of Commons committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Therrien’s submission, which contains 60 recommendations, states that the bill is “frequently misaligned and less protective” of consumers’ data than privacy laws in other countries.
Evening Brief: A one-dose summer and two-dose fall By iPolitics. Published on May 11, 2021 5:52pm Sophie Grégoire Trudeau received her first COVID-19 jab at an Ottawa pharmacy on April 23, 2021. Photo: Adam Scotti / PMO
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We begin, as we do most days, with COVID-19, and word that a national system to manage and track vaccines is hardly being used by the provinces. That’s despite the fact that nearly half of eligible Canadians have received at least one dose of a vaccine already.
FinTech startups frustrated with glacial pace of Canada’s open banking consultations
Sue Britton was feeling “super optimistic” when the Advisory Committee on Open Banking sent out a package for phase-two consultation participants with an outline of the workshops it wanted to hold and its recommendations for an eventual framework.
“It was very exciting to see such a focus on both the consumer and the small business and innovation,” she said. “To see the purpose was to not only protect the consumers but give them access to innovative products in a safe way, I thought that was super exciting.”
Roughly four months and one federal budget later, there’s a big asterisk to her optimism.
We're beginning to see an emphasis placed on the privacy and protection of consumers in Canada with the recent tabling of Bill C-11, the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020. How can your business prepare for this?