Canada

This podcast series, intended for private sector companies doing business in Québec, dives into the requirements of Act 25 coming into force on September 22, 2022. Candice Hévin and Marie-Eve Jean, from our Privacy & Data Protection Group, lead the discussions on the changes to the private sector regime, namely the amendments to the…

This podcast series, intended for private sector companies doing business in Québec, dives into the requirements of Act 25 coming into force on September 22, 2022. Candice Hévin and Marie-Eve Jean, from our Privacy & Data Protection Group, lead the discussions on the changes to the private sector regime, namely the amendments to the…

On September 22, 2022, the first set of amendments from Bill 64, specifically to Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Quebec Privacy Act) will come into force. Although most amendments will come into force in September 2023, we wanted to highlight some key new…

Certain amendments to Québec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, introduced by Bill 64, will come into force on September 22, 2022. A draft Regulation specifying the requirements of these new provisions was published on June 29, 2022, subject to 45 days of consultation, to come into…

Note: this is the first in a series of blog posts on Bill C-27, also known as An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act, the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act. Bill C-27 is a revised version of the former Bill C-11 which died…

Over the past several weeks, there have been several important privacy developments in Canada including troubling privacy practices at well-known organizations such as the CBC and Tim Hortons, a call from business organizations for privacy reform, the nomination of a new privacy commissioner with little privacy experience, and a decision by a Senate committee to…

Remarks at the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Canada Privacy Symposium 2022 May 26, 2022 Address by Daniel Therrien Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Check against delivery) This will be my last speech to the IAPP as Privacy Commissioner of Canada. For that occasion, Kris Klein expressed the hope that I would…

Earlier this month, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) released a summary of its key recommendations for a new federal private sector privacy law (the “Key Recommendations”), one that would update or replace the existing Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”).[1] The federal government most recently attempted to amend…

“The past,” wrote novelist L.P. Hartley, “is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” Although Hartley wrote those words in 1953, they’ve never been truer than they are today in our highly digitized society. Just 40 years into the past, for example, the adjective “digital” was often used to…

The privacy environment has changed significantly since I took office in 2014. Following 9/11, the need to protect against further terrorist attacks seemed to outweigh privacy interests of individuals. This trend has changed with time, in part due to the Edward Snowden revelations made in 2013. The urgency of adopting…