Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course, following the example set by his predecessor Daniel Therrien.
Dufresne appeared before the House...
If the government reintroduces its online privacy bill, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will need to see its funding doubled, the commissioner told MPs. The previous version of the legislation died on the order paper when last year’s election was called....
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has followed...
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s...
Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien told the House of Commons Ethics Committee Monday, repeating a longstanding call the Privacy...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner will be...
The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy...
Following an analysis of Bill C-11, the federal...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner needs to be able to decide what to...
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for the Office of the Privacy Commission (OPC) to have its jurisdiction extended to cover the Office of the Prime Minister and other federal ministerial offices. Therrien raised the proposal in a submission filed Tuesday as part of a statutory...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has released its report into a major data breach at the Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec, which affected around 9.7 million individuals and...
The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...
An investigation into the use of facial recognition technology to analyze age and gender of customers in shopping malls owned by Cadillac Fairview concluded that it violated Canadian privacy law, the...
Speaking Tuesday morning at an online event, Bell assistant general counsel Ruby Barber said that a proposed overhaul of Quebec's privacy law -- known as Bill 64 -- is...
The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened privacy concerns around activities...
Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien has urged Federal Court to find the...
In a letter to shadow ministers, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien assures opposition MPs that the...
COVID-19 has made privacy rights even more important, the federal privacy commissioner’s office told Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault in May. A presentation prepared by the Office of the...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal government's new voluntary app to trace exposure to the COVID-19 virus, it consulted the Office of...
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development announced on Monday the launch of what it is calling the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), as well as a research centre to be based in Monteal in cooperation with...
The outdated state of Canadian privacy laws may harm efforts to launch a...
Facebook Inc.'s request that Federal Court throw out a report from the...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner today announced it is launching an investigation into the use of...
OTTAWA — Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is adding artificial intelligence (AI) to his...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told reporters...
At a Vancouver press conference Tuesday, the federal and British Columbia...
A new group made up of businesses and industry associations wants to help...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options may be coming down the road for big data and social media giants as lawmakers from Canada and some...
Innovation Canada is recommending that the privacy commissioner be vested...
If the Office of the Privacy Commissioner takes Facebook Inc. to Federal...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday it is...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Tuesday that it has concluded its investigation into the...
The 2019 federal budget is boosting funding to the office of the privacy commissioner by $22 million over the next five years, following years of requests for more money to deal with new resource pressures.
But the office admits it isn’t totally clear yet on what the...
OTTAWA — A lawyer for CBC/Radio-Canada who is asking the Federal Court to...
Canadians appear to be generally in favour of the ‘right to be forgotten’, with most showing support for the idea and a majority saying they would support having it set out in Canadian law,...
The federal privacy watchdog is warning the Liberal government against...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and its counterpart in Quebec are party to a “permanent working...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner said Thursday that comments...
OTTAWA — The consequences of bringing the country’s political parties...
OTTAWA — Canada’s federal privacy watchdog asked a Senate committee...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says he plans to...
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively urged their own governments Monday to pass legislation placing political parties in Canada under...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will join Alberta’s provincial privacy watchdog...
A newly-minted data rights group spearheaded by former BlackBerry Ltd. co-CEO Jim Balsillie met with privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien in late May, according to the federal lobbying registry....
Following nine public meetings that began in March, the House committee...
The Office of The Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has asked the government for a...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has unveiled a set of guidelines for getting meaningful consent to collect user data, as well as outlining six inappropriate uses of personal data on Thursday.
The privacy watchdog said that the inappropriate data use...
OTTAWA — Proposed legislation that will require federal political parties...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is asking the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities to consider how privacy protocols were implemented when selecting smart cities challenge winners....
OTTAWA — There is no reason for political parties to be using social...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner told the House of Commons ethics...
OTTAWA — Any amendments to Canada’s privacy law for the private sector...
The privacy commissioner is calling for his office to be included in Bill...
The government should consider including frameworks for a right to erasure...
Automatic, data-based advertising has grown significantly over the years...
A parliamentary ethics committee is recommending the government enact into law policies that limit the ability of Canadian and United States border officials to intrusively search electronic devices without reasonable grounds.
“The Committee argues that the Customs Act...
OTTAWA — Parliamentarians debating Bill C-59 will have to come to grips...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has released an analysis of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), but cautions that there are still challenges for the adoption of practises...
OTTAWA — Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien does not think...
Because some aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) raise privacy concerns, the...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will not wait for the government to give it order-making and monetary enforcement powers to move toward proactively raising complaints instead of passively waiting for them to enter the door, it said in its annual...
OTTAWA — Canadians should be exercising a fair amount of caution when...
American civil liberties groups are suing the U.S. federal government over warrantless searches of travellers’ personal devices at the border. In a press release, the American Civil Liberties...
Without an Edward Snowden-like scandal, exposing inappropriate government access of citizens’ personal...
The choice of Ian Scott as the new chairman of the CRTC was greeted...
OTTAWA — Grouping electronic devices with other goods when it comes to...
Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the House of Commons committee on public safety and national security to amend a proposed law that governs border searches and is recommending a way that it...
The search of personal electronic devices when crossing the Canada-U.S. border is an “extremely privacy intrusive procedure,” Daniel Therrien, the federal privacy commissioner, has told the House...
OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy commissioner should not be vested with order-making and fining power because doing so would harm the collaborative...
OTTAWA — The federal privacy commissioner will be working with stakeholders to develop a “code of practice” to help address privacy concerns around connected and autonomous vehicles, a Senate committee heard Tuesday. There are a wide range of questions that still have to be answered when it comes to connected cars, Daniel Therrien told the standing committee on transport and communications as part of their study on the regulatory and technical challenges related to the deployment of connected and autonomous vehicles. Those questions include who is responsible...
The federal privacy watchdog is asking the government to petition its counterparts in the United States to include Canada in a list of countries whose citizens are afforded protection for their...
OTTAWA — Fines levied against companies who breach privacy rules in Canada need to be increased to help prevent breaches in the future and to come in line with European Union data...
OTTAWA — Canadians expect the federal privacy commissioner to be able to make orders and levy fines against companies that break privacy rules, Daniel Therrien told members of Parliament studying the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Thursday, noting that the current inability to do so erodes trust in a...
OTTAWA — The federal government hasn’t made its case for why law enforcement and intelligence agencies need stronger powers to intercept, decrypt and share citizens’ information, the...
OTTAWA — Companies who are not already proactively complying with the federal government’s transparency reporting rules are running out of time before the Office of the Privacy Commissioner begins looking for ways to enforce the guidelines with legislation. “Going forward, we hope companies follow the guidelines and that we begin to see more consistent reporting,” said the office’s annual report, which was tabled in the House of Commons Tuesday morning....
The company behind Ashley Madison, a website aimed at adulterous interactions that suffered a massive customer data breach last year, had “inadequate security safeguards and policies,”...
OTTAWA — The federal minister of public safety indicated Wednesday a willingness to engage with a freshly passed resolution from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) calling for a...
TORONTO — Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told a telecom industry audience Wednesday that companies should be prudent about the collection and use of metadata, and cautioned companies that...
Health devices will take the spotlight when Canada’s privacy commissioner participates in this week’s global examination of the Internet of Things (IoT). The Global Privacy Enforcement Network’s 2016 privacy...
OTTAWA — Canadians should be keeping an eye on the FBI's request to gain access to an iPhone connected to the Dec. 2 San Bernadino, Calif., attack, according to Canada's...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said Wednesday it has launched an interactive online tool aimed at helping parents manage online risks facing their children, to coincide with Data Privacy Day, which takes place...
The privacy commissioner of Canada is asking Parliament to confirm the principles behind a Supreme Court decision that requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant in order to obtain customers’ personal information from Internet service providers (ISPs). In an opinion article in the Toronto Star Monday,...
As wearable technology moves further into the mainstream, thoughts are turning toward how individual privacy can be protected with such devices that track and transmit information as personal as health data and real-time location....
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Monday it is participating in an international "sweep" of websites and mobile applications to help safeguard the privacy of children. The office said in a press release Monday that it will participate in an international initiative by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network that will pay close attention to online entities that target children this week. “We know from previous privacy sweeps that mobile apps and websites often collect an immense amount of personal information,” Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said in the release. “Children are more connected than ever before and these platforms must bear that in mind when seeking potentially sensitive data such as name, location or email address.” The...
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre said it will not drop a CRTC complaint against BCE Inc.’s targeted ad program, despite the company’s plans to re-launch the program according to...
Faced with a possible legal fight against another agency of the federal government, BCE Inc. on Tuesday backed down after the Office of the Privacy Commissioner said the company refused to require...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is launching a research project into online advertising that targets users based on their online behaviour. In a letter to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada (IAB), privacy...
Bill C-8, officially known as the Combating Counterfeit Products Act, and Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, both received royal assent on Tuesday. Bill C-13 has been criticized by many, including Privacy...
Canadian Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has joined 22 other privacy authorities from Canadian provinces and international jurisdictions calling on mobile-app marketplaces to require easily accessible privacy policies from developers of apps that collect personal information from users. Therrien is among those who signed a letter addressed to operators of application stores, including Google Inc., Apple Inc. and BlackBerry Ltd., that said "an app marketplace operator should, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, make the basic commitment to require each app that can...
Complaints to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada nearly doubled in 2013 from the previous year as concerns about BCE Inc.'s advertising and tracking program filled the commissioner’s inbox. According to the privacy commissioner’s annual report to Parliament, released Thursday, there were 426 complaints made...
New Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien says two government bills that deal with the sharing of information about Internet users, C-13 and S-4, should be reviewed in light of a recent Supreme Court...
OTTAWA — Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday that he was troubled by provisions in the government’s cyberbullying legislation that...
OTTAWA — Daniel Therrien, the government’s nominee for privacy commissioner, told senators Tuesday that telecom companies should disclose statistics about the number of requests...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Daniel Therrien as the next federal privacy commissioner. Harper’s office issued the announcement through a press release on Wednesday. Therrien is currently an assistant deputy...