News Views & Reviews

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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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:

• The Office of the Privacy ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
• Safe ...
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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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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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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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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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