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The Privacy Commissioner of Canada just released a report of findings about a company contracted by the Airport of Montreal to do on-arrival covid testing. The company added the people tested to their mailing list and sent them unsolicited commercial electronic messages. The investigation was done j … Read more »

The government of Canada tabled the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 in the week before parliament rose for their summer break. While this is in limbo, what, if anything, should Canadian businesses be doing to prepare for the Consumer Privacy Protection Act? In the week before the summer bre … Read more »

Finally, the government of Canada has tabled its long-awaited privacy law, intended to completely overhaul Canada’s private sector privacy law, and rocket the country to the front of the pack for protecting privacy. Not quite, but I’ll give you an overview of what it says. Highlights On June 26, 202 … Read more »

The government wants border agents to be able to search your smartphones and laptops without any suspicion that you’ve done anything wrong. I think that’s a problem. There are a lot of problematic bills currently pending before parliament but one in particular is not getting enough attention. It’s B … Read more »

Canadian businesses are routinely asked by police agencies to provide customer information in order to further their investigations or intelligence gathering. The police generally do not care whether the business can legally disclose the information and, in my experience, the police are generally ig … Read more »