Parliamentarians on the House of Commons Ethics committee are calling for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology (FRT) by federal policing agencies used in...
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...
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 (PHAC) lack of transparency on mobility data collection “appalling” and urged a strengthening...
Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...
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 federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner said Thursday. The OPC launched the investigation in 2018, conducted alongside the Alberta and B.C. privacy commissioners. It said in a press release Thursday that the company, which embedded cameras in 12 shopping malls across Canada, “used facial recognition technology without their customers’ knowledge or consent.” The release said the...
Speaking Tuesday morning at an online event, Bell assistant general counsel...
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 Privacy Commissioner ahead of a meeting with Guilbeault in early May, and obtained through Access to Information, includes a section on the impact of the pandemic. A rights-based approach to privacy is now even more important to maintain Canadians’ confidence in technologies like e-health and...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that in developing the federal...
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 guide the Office of the Privacy Commissioner on issues including data de-identification and a reform of PIPEDA, according to documents obtained by The Wire Report.
The 15-member Business Privacy...
OTTAWA - Legislators on Tuesday gave some sense of what regulatory options...
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 Equifax Inc. data breach and it will monitor the company for the next six years.
It said in a press release that “both Equifax Canada and its US-based parent company...
The 2019 federal budget is boosting funding to the office of the privacy...
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 ask the Federal Court for a reference on whether the private sector’s privacy law applies to search engine de-indexing.
In the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (OPC) annual report...
Canada's federal, provincial and territorial privacy watchdogs collectively...
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 30-per-cent-increase to its budget, but said that it would need three times that amount for its work to have a significant effect.
In a letter to the House of Commons ethics committee, privacy...
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has unveiled a set...
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 and now it’s even making the move to billboards — but it’s a trend that could, in some cases, face challenges due the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), especially...
A parliamentary ethics committee is recommending the government enact into...
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 Canadian government should bring border search and related privacy matters to the trade negotiating table, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist told the committee...
OTTAWA — The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) will not wait for the government to give it...
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 relationship his office has with wireless companies, the...
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,...
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 country’s privacy watchdogs said Tuesday, as they shared their submission to the federal government’s national security framework review. “The government should only propose and Parliament should only approve new state powers if they are demonstrated to be necessary and...
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...
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. Among the projects the Office of the Privacy Commissioner is slated to tackle over the next year is an analysis of fitness-tracker privacy and security. This project “will examine the relationship between the data collection and transmission practices of fitness-tracking devices, the cloud services they integrate with and how third parties may obtain access...
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...
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 Commissioner Daniel Therrien, for measures that make it easier for telecommunications service providers to voluntarily provide authorities with customers' personal information. Bill C-8 amends Canada’s copyright and trademark laws to include new civil and criminal charges and give border agents new powers to seize suspected counterfeit goods....
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...
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...
