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A panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) need to be updated to reflect changes in the cyber landscape, the House of Commons Ethics Committee heard on Monday. Those calls echoed remarks made before the committee by Ontario’s former privacy commissioner, Ann Cavoukian. 

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