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New privacy law gives ‘more weight’ to commercial interests; needs ‘significant changes’: OPC 

News | 05/11/2021 6:22 pm EDT
New privacy law gives 'more weight' to commercial interests; needs 'significant changes': OPC 
Privacy commissioner, Daniel Therrien in 2017

Following an analysis of Bill C-11, the federal government’s proposed update to the private sector privacy law, the office of the privacy commissioner (OPC) has put forward more than 50 recommendations for the bill which Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said Tuesday would actually be a “step back” for privacy protection as it is currently drafted. 

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