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Ending hidden ownership in private businesses

The “single most important measure that can be taken to combat money laundering” is a reality in British Columbia, now that amendments have been introduced to the Business Corporations Act to create a new, public registry ...
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Commissioners launch joint investigation into TikTok

The privacy protection authorities for Canada, Québec, British Columbia and Alberta announced today that they will jointly investigate the short-form video streaming application TikTok. The investigation will be undertaken by:
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Predictive surveillance software declared unconstitutional

The use of Palantir's predictive surveillance software by police has been declared unconstitutional by the German Federal Constitutional Court, on the basis that its use violates the right to informational self-determination. The landmark ruling concludes ...
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Privacy and Protection: A children’s rights approach to encryption

Canada, the UK and EU are among the countries looking at legislative measures control the availability of and access to online content in order o to protect children against child sexual abuse. A new report ...
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Join the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Open Government

The Multi-stakeholder Forum on Open Government provides input and advice on the Government of Canada’s open government commitments, identifies new areas of focus, and builds the open government community across Canada. The Multi-Stakeholder Forum is ...
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Children’s right to privacy needs to be strengthened in law and beyond

by Michelle Gordon At the height of the pandemic last year, I wrote an article arguing that Canada’s federal privacy law needed to be strengthened for children, especially given their all-time highs in online activity ...
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Suing Meta in Kenya

Africa has been a continent exploited since the European scramble carved it out in lines of a draughtsman’s crude design. Its resources have been pilfered; its peoples enslaved for reasons of trade and profit; its ...
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HIA Breach Conviction

A former Lamont Health Care Centre employee admitted to taking photos in August 2019 of three long-term care residents at the Lamont Health Care Centre in Lamont, Alberta. She applied a bug-eye filter to alter ...
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Statement from the Privacy & Access Council of Canada following the release of the ETHI Committee’s report of Device Investigative Tools Used by the RCMP

In the months since the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics undertook a study of “on-device investigative tools” used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the use of spyware by police and ...
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Study: One-Third of Financial Services Companies Lack Clear Plans to Address Privacy Risks

Although 70% of respondents to a new Accenture survey of privacy risk executives in the banking, insurance, and capital markets in North America and Europe consider privacy to be a primary risk concern within their ...
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PACC welcomes new National Standard of Competency for Privacy and Access Professionals

The National Standard of Competency for data protection professionals signals the beginning of the end of struggling to identify candidates who are well‑qualified to serve in access, privacy, and data protection roles In the half-century ...
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The privacy officer: Every organization needs one now in Québec

As of September 22, 2022, some 220,000 businesses operating in the province of Québec must have a privacy officer. There are no exceptions. The person with the highest authority within the organization automatically assumes this ...
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NSICOP Spyware Study

Following an August 2022 study by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics on the topic of Device Investigation Tools Used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) — aka spyware ...
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National Standard for the Governance of Human Research Data

Work is about to start on developing a National Standard for the Governance of Human Research Data.  Themes to be addressed will include:
  • Privacy/human rights/democratic rights/digital identity
  • Data ownership, intellectual property, including copyright
  • Data quality and grading
  • Interoperability of systems
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PACC concerned with ‘deeply problematic’ Cybersecurity Bill C-26

The Government of Canada has introduced Bill C-26: An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts. In addition to granting the government sweeping new powers, the Bill's ...
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New proposal to combat CSAM

On October 10th, EU Commissioner Johansson will present a proposal for new rules that would oblige providers to detect, report and remove child sexual abuse material on their services. Providers would also need to assess and mitigate the risk of misuse of their services, while any ...
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New legislated threat to privacy

India joins Canada and the UK in introducing new legislation that threatens end-to-end encryption. The new provisions authorize the government to direct the interception and disclosure of any messages or communications — including those on fixed and mobile ...
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Securing Public Trust in Digital Healthcare 

Canada's Privacy Commissioners passed a joint resolution calling on governments, health sector institutions, and health providers to phase out the use of fax and unencrypted email for communicating personal health information “as soon as reasonably ...
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