During Paul Martin’s term as Prime Minister, the Government began the process of reducing electronic spam (email and SMS Text) in Canadian’s personal inboxes. Stephen Harper’s Government then carried the ball and in Dec 2010 the Canadian Anti Spam Legislation was passed and became law. During Paul Martin’s term as Prime Minister, the Government began […]
Until now, we have not really been required to implement practices or processes to track and record consent to use an individual’s personal data when conducting business. For the most part over the past 20 years, we collected and bought what we could and then “followed the technology” to determine what we could do with […]
September 29, 2021 The following is an op-ed by Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien calling on the new parliament to adopt modern, rights-based privacy laws that reflect Canadian values and support responsible innovation. Versions of this op-ed were published by two newspapers. Canada has elected a new Parliament and among its central tasks will be to […]