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Year: <span>2021</span>

Building Back Better Requires Strong, Effective Regulation of Digital World

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 […]
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Privacy in Canada – A Balanced Approach?

During the past 6 years it has been beyond frustrating to watch little to nothing happen with our Canadian privacy laws, despite the constant and very public cry of our leading privacy experts such as Daniel Therrien, our Privacy Commissioner. Technology has certainly not stood still. PIPEDA was passed 20+ years ago (with little to […]
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Consent and the GDPR

We often hear comments like “The GDPR is a consent based law” and ” Under the GDPR you must have consent”, yet nothing could be further from the truth. Let’s unpack where consent fits under the GDPR. As consumers we have been trained to not trust most organizations with our personal data. We know they […]
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Proving Consent in a Data Protected World

One of the compliance issues of virtually every data protection law globally is PROVING you have consent to use personal data to help you conduct your business. Make no mistake, most businesses believe they have consent, but cannot definitively PROVE it. When we ask clients for proof of consent, they stutter and stammer and change […]
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GDPR Recital Mapping

When implementing a privacy management programme based on the GDPR, it is helpful to know which recitals are connected to which articles. Here is a handy tool we discovered at – https://virgiliocervantes.co.uk/index.php/2018/10/25/gdpr-recital-mapping/  and re-formatted for ease of use.
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The Great Privacy Awakening

The consumer privacy awakening has begun. Slowly but surely, individuals are realizing that what they thought was privacy, is not actually what the data protection and privacy laws are out to protect. They are beginning to see the complex “surveillance system” that profiles them on a constant basis and trades openly to “sell them more […]
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CPRA – An Executive Summary

Executive Summary In November 2020, over 9.3 million Californians voted to approve the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) of 2020 with the passage of Proposition 24. The CPRA is the strongest consumer privacy law ever enacted in the United States, and achieves broad general parity with the most comprehensive laws in other jurisdictions including Europe (GDPR), Japan, Israel, New Zealand, Canada, etc. […]
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