Privacy

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, promulgated, on 10 June 2020, Law No. 14.0140 of 10 June 2020 (‘the Law’), which postpones the enforcement of Law No. 13.709 of 14 August 2018, General Personal Data Protection Law (as amended by Law No. 13.853 of 8 July 2019) (‘LGPD’) to August…

The Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) yesterday approved of Bell Canada’s new AI-based anti-spam system on a 90-day trial basis. The system will be tested for 90 days to measure its efficacy in blocking fraudulent calls from illegitimate and malformed numbers. Bell’s application specifies that its new system uses AI…

With the stringent new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January 1, 2020, the top technology companies in the United States are starting to position themselves for a completely new operating environment in less than two months. Seattle-based Microsoft is now the first major tech company…

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June 17, 10:00AM to 12:30PM EDT In jurisdictions around the world, automated contact tracing is being considered as an element of COVID-19 recovery efforts. However, in many regions these efforts are being met with resistance, with significant questions being raised around surveillance, privacy, and even the efficacy of such systems.…

June 10, 2020 @ 12:00 Noon In May 2020, TrustArc conducted a comprehensive Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey of more than 1,500 senior executives, privacy office leaders, privacy team members, management, and full-time employees outside the privacy function. The survey findings include benchmarking data on how companies are managing their privacy…

Okay, this won’t be a musical but will be an entertaining discussion on how and why you should keep Records of Processing Activities as per Article 30 of the GDPR. Did you know that every organisation should be keeping RoPA – the exception is not a blanket one? If this…

Appearance before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) on contact tracing applications May 29, 2020 Ottawa, Ontario Opening statement by Daniel Therrien Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Check against delivery) Thank you chair and committee members for your invitation to discuss tracing applications, which is…

Data rights requests continue to be one of the most challenging areas of GDPR compliance. Last year, we published some practical tips on how to manage subject access requests. In this article, we focus on another tricky right under the GDPR – the right to deletion. Practically speaking, deletion requests…

Apple faces a near-constant challenge: keeping its iPhones secure. The company has spent years and untold millions of dollars squaring off against a small but talented industry that works to figure out ways to help law enforcement break into iPhones. Currently, security experts believe that tools sold to police struggle…