On January 15, 2008, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) criticized Industry Canada’s comments regarding a report on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) conducted by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information and Ethics. Issues commented on by PIAC include data breach notification, children’s privacy, public safety consent, and ...
This report is available in PDF format [pdf file: 0.28mb] Executive Summary This report assesses the efficacy to date of the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and identifies significant gaps and grey areas in the data protection regime, from the consumer perspective. All relevant findings of the Privacy Commissioner to the end of October 2004 ...
CSA Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information, CAN/CSA-Q830-96 2002-2003 Review Comments of Philippa Lawson, Public Interest Advocacy Centre Introduction It has now been six years since the introduction of the CSA Model Code for Data Protection. A number of organizations have modeled their own privacy codes and policies on this standard, and businesses across the country have ...
PIAC's position on the process of determining whether provincial privacy legislation is substantially similar to the Personal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act Richard Simpson, Director General Electronic Commerce Branch, Industry Canada Re: Process for determination of “Substantially Similar” provincial provisions to the Personal Information ...
The Honourable Anne McLellan P.C., M.P. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada 284 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H8 Dear Minister McLellan, We are writing to applaud your recent commitment to review the federal Privacy Act, and urge you to ensure that the review is a thorough one. Like many Canadians, we were dismayed to find out that Human Resources Development Canada ...
Article for “Community Law Matters” by Philippa Lawson, Counsel, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Ottawa It may have taken a desire to position Canada in the forefront of global electronic commerce, but the federal government should nevertheless be congratulated for finally moving to protect Canadians' personal information from unauthorized commercial use. Bill C-54, the ...
Address to the Riley Conference on Privacy and Bill C-54 by Philippa Lawson (February 1999) Address to Riley Conference on Privacy and Bill C-54 Privacy in Canada: A Public Interest Perspective It's been said that privacy is the civil liberties issue of our era. We used to take it for granted, but all that has changed with computers. As David Flaherty said, our technocratic societies can ...