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OPC happy with tracing app, but not with privacy law

News | 08/28/2020 5:00 pm EDT
Resources ‘already stretched’ as breach reports set to increase: OPC
Daniel Therrien at the Sept. 2017 presentation of the privacy commissioner’s annual report./ Hill Times photo by Andrew Meade.

In a letter to shadow ministers, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien assures opposition MPs that the COVID-19 tracing app launched by the federal government does conform to federal privacy law. 

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