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Dufresne recommends changes to Digital Charter Act
Internet and Governance | 09/29/2023 5:45 pm EDT
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is happy the government is open to altering the Digital Charter Implementation Act, Bill C27, but has a few more changes to suggest. Philippe Dufresne made the remarks in an opening statement at an appearance before the House of Commons...
Champagne to introduce amendments to Digital Charter Act
Internet and Governance | 09/27/2023 3:57 pm EDT
Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne is preparing a series of amendments to Bill C-27, the Digital Charter Implementation Act. He outlined his proposals while testifying at the House of Commons Industry Committee on Tuesday afternoon....
Dufresne releases annual privacy report to Parliament
Internet and Governance | 09/19/2023 2:21 pm EDT
The Privacy Commissioner is warning that artificial intelligence (AI) could have an impact on...
Class action suit against Facebook can proceed, SCC
Internet and Governance | 08/31/2023 5:03 pm EDT
A class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc. over age discrimination can move forward, after the...
Canadian Digital Regulators Forum established to address digital policy
Internet and Governance | 06/09/2023 12:25 pm EDT
The Competition Bureau, CRTC, and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner...
OPC appeals court Facebook decision
Internet and Governance | 05/15/2023 3:31 pm EDT
The federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner has filed notice that it intends to appeal last month's...
OPC calls for changes to Bill C-27
Internet and Governance | 05/12/2023 12:27 pm EDT
While calling it an "improvement" over both the current existing private-sector privacy law and a "step in the right direction", Canada's federal privacy watchdog has called for a number of changes to Bill C-27, or the Digital Charter Implementation Act.
Chief among the...
Stakeholders call for a “whole-of-government” approach to competition reform
Internet and Governance | 04/24/2023 5:19 pm EDT
Stakeholders who submitted responses to the federal government’s...
MP plans legislation to protect workers from ‘bossware’
Internet and Governance | 03/07/2023 1:32 pm EST
A Toronto MP is looking to introduce legislation that will cover the use of...
On privacy, Telus exec criticizes media; says Canada should avoid ‘overly-prescriptive’ laws
Internet and Governance | 11/23/2022 6:30 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA – Criticism of Telus Corp.’s...
Regulating TSPs, not suppliers, in cybersecurity bill will be ineffective: Telus exec
telecom | 11/22/2022 3:55 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA — Telus Corp.’s vice president...
Rogers found to have violated PIPEDA through voiceprint program
telecom | 10/07/2022 3:49 pm EDT
Rogers Communications Inc. violated a customer’s privacy by not deleting...
Pandemic has altered cybersecurity landscape: CIRA survey
telecom | 10/05/2022 4:29 pm EDT
Just over half of IT security professionals feel their organization in more...
Ethics Committee calls for moratorium on use of facial recognition tech
telecom | 10/04/2022 5:07 pm EDT
Parliamentarians on the House of Commons Ethics committee are calling for a...
Privacy watchdogs call for better health data practices
telecom | 09/21/2022 4:41 pm EDT
Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial privacy commissioners are...
CRTC clarifies privacy rules for COVID tracing apps, declines to establish new regulations
telecom | 09/06/2022 4:49 pm EDT
The CRTC has clarified the rules around the collection and sharing of data from mobile wireless devices in the context of the contact tracing apps that were a major feature of...
Canadian politicians subject to police surveillance, Ethics committee told
telecom | 08/09/2022 6:32 pm EDT
The Parliamentary committee looking at so-called on device investigation...
RCMP not using Pegasus, Ethics committee upset with lack of information
telecom | 08/08/2022 6:50 pm EDT
The RCMP are not deploying the Pegasus system to conduct surveillance on...
Ethics committee to study RCMP’s use of ‘device investigation tools’
telecom | 07/26/2022 5:42 pm EDT
The House of Commons Ethics committee will hold...
Quebec class-action goes after Google for $50 million
Media | 07/11/2022 5:25 pm EDT
The Superior Court of Quebec has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.'s Google for...
Cell phone border search bill, with higher search threshold, passes Senate
telecom | 06/21/2022 5:24 pm EDT
Late Monday night the Senate passed a reformed version of a bill that seeks to codify the standard in the Customs Act under which Canadian border officials can search a...
Gov. tables three-headed private sector privacy reform bill
Media | 06/16/2022 5:45 pm EDT
Touting it as a "historic day" at an afternoon press conference, Innovation...
Mendicino and Champagne say cyber security bill protects infrastructure; NDP wants more reporting requirements
telecom | 06/15/2022 6:03 pm EDT
The two ministers responsible for the Act...
Government introduces two-part cybersecurity bill
telecom | 06/14/2022 6:45 pm EDT
The government’s new cybersecurity bill, introduced on Tuesday, is taking a two-pronged approach. One...
Senate committee rejects Gov. threshold for border cell phone search bill
Media | 06/13/2022 5:56 pm EDT
The Senate's National Security and Defence Committee has pushed back...
Dufresne pledges to continue Therrien’s work as Privacy Commissioner
Internet and Governance | 06/13/2022 3:54 pm EDT
Incoming Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne vowed to stay the course,...
Philippe Dufresne appointed Privacy Commissioner
telecom | 06/09/2022 2:19 pm EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed Philippe Dufresne as Privacy Commissioner Wednesday. ...
The border is a “perfect storm” for discrimination in cell phone search bill: Citizen Lab fellow
Media | 06/08/2022 4:55 pm EDT
The government's effort to convince...
OPC calls for higher threshold on border cell phone search bill
telecom | 06/06/2022 5:01 pm EDT
When it comes to the government's plan to lower the threshold governing the...
OPC needs budget doubled, Therrien says in swan song
telecom | 06/03/2022 5:19 pm EDT
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....
Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws: privacy watchdogs
Media | 06/01/2022 5:48 pm EDT
Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons violated national privacy law because...
Searches of cell phones should meet same threshold as mail: civil liberties advocates
telecom | 06/01/2022 5:35 pm EDT
Given that the data contained on personal digital...
Lower, legally novel threshold in Bill S-7 needed for “unique situation”: minister
telecom | 05/31/2022 6:04 pm EDT
The government's attempt to create a brand new...
New legislation needed to cover growing privacy issues: Therrien
Media | 05/26/2022 4:07 pm EDT
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien is calling for new legislation that...
Bill S-7 would “weaponize the Customs Act”: Senator
telecom | 05/04/2022 4:06 pm EDT
A Government bill in the Senate that seeks to codify the legal threshold for the search of digital devices at border crossings would "weaponize the Customs Act in fresh and unintended ways," according to one Senator.
In remarks to the Senate Tuesday, Senator Paula...
Therrien endorses Ethics report on data dive, makes further recommendations
telecom | 05/04/2022 3:58 pm EDT
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has welcomed the report on collection...
Ethics committee seeks changes to privacy laws, opting out of data collection
telecom | 05/03/2022 5:34 pm EDT
The House of Commons’ Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and...
Privacy watchdogs call for legal framework governing facial recognition
telecom | 05/02/2022 4:24 pm EDT
Along with counterparts from the provinces, the federal privacy watchdog...
Facebook lied in Security Committee: Rodriguez
Media | 04/27/2022 4:28 pm EDT
Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has said the Government is not backing down from its legislative effort...
Facebook doesn’t rule out blocking news content if C-18 passes, docs reveal telecom opposition to online harms framework
Internet and Governance | 04/26/2022 5:43 pm EDT
Representatives of Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms...
OPC not consulted, privacy experts concerned on cell phone border search bill
telecom | 04/13/2022 5:44 pm EDT
A new Government-backed Senate bill now seeks to establish a new framework...
Facial recognition technology needs human intervention, hand coding, experts tell Ethics committee
Media | 04/04/2022 6:00 pm EDT
Facial recognition technology (FRT) needs human...
Device search bill will safeguard traveller rights: Gov.
telecom | 03/31/2022 6:15 pm EDT
In what it says is an effort to safeguard travellers' rights when entering...
Put national moratorium on facial recognition for law enforcement, lawyer tells HoC committee
Media | 03/21/2022 5:01 pm EDT
The Canadian government should place a national moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement “until and unless” it is shown to be reliable,...
Public and private sector privacy laws need an update: Therrien to Ethics committee
telecom | 03/03/2022 4:31 pm EST
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien has followed...
PHAC data dive legal but not necessarily ethical, Parliamentarians told
telecom | 02/28/2022 5:38 pm EST
The gathering of mobility cellphone data by the Public Health Agency of...
Telus, Blue Dot stress Health Canada never received personal data
telecom | 02/18/2022 5:26 pm EST
It would be impossible for the government to re-identify mobility data of...
Government is using surveillance in data dive, Ethics committee told
telecom | 02/14/2022 4:05 pm EST
A panel of academics reiterated that the Privacy Act and the Personal...
PHAC lack of transparency “appalling”, Cavoukian tells Ethics committee
Internet and Governance | 02/11/2022 10:06 am EST
Ontario’s former privacy commissioner called the Public Health Agency’s (PHAC) lack of transparency on mobility data collection “appalling” and urged a strengthening...
House adopts Ethics report, Liberals vote against measure
telecom | 02/08/2022 6:38 pm EST
The House of Commons passed an Opposition motion endorsing the Ethics...
Privacy Commissioner advocates update of Privacy Act before Ethics committee
Media | 02/07/2022 4:43 pm EST
Canada’s Privacy Act needs to be updated, Privacy Commissioner Daniel...
B.C. court greenlights 1 of 3 class actions against Google for non-consensual data collection
Media | 02/04/2022 5:57 pm EST
A Supreme Court of British Columbia judge has...
Duclos and Tam face Ethics committee over data collection, RFP extended again
telecom | 02/03/2022 7:42 pm EST
Data being collected by private companies on behalf of the Public Health...
Few stakeholders fully support Heritage proposal for online harms: report
Internet and Governance | 02/03/2022 7:12 pm EST
The government needs to rethink its approach to regulating harmful content...
Tories attack government over PHAC data tracking, Huawei delay
telecom | 02/02/2022 3:38 pm EST
Two Conservative MPs lambasted the Liberal government on Tuesday over data...
Tam refuses to appear before Ethics committee, Duclos to testify on Thursday
telecom | 01/31/2022 4:56 pm EST
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, has declined an...
Clearview goes to B.C. Supreme Court to fight privacy order
Media | 01/25/2022 6:11 pm EST
A controversial artificial intelligence and facial recognition software...
Ethics committee votes for data hearing, Health Canada amends RFP
Internet and Governance | 01/13/2022 5:09 pm EST
OTTAWA–The House of Commons Ethics committee voted unanimously Thursday to call Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos to explain why...
Opposition seeks emergency probe into Health Canada cellphone tracking
telecom | 01/10/2022 5:21 pm EST
A group of four Opposition MPs is asking for an emergency meeting of the...
UPDATED: Conservative MP Brassard demands investigation into cellphone tracking
telecom | 01/07/2022 4:17 pm EST
Conservative MP John Brassard wrote a letter Jan. 5 to Privacy Commissioner...
Court rejects BCCLA request to intervene in OPC v. Facebook court case
Media | 12/10/2021 1:20 pm EST
A Federal Court judge has denied an application by the British Columbia...
ISED, EU, on a mission to tame “wild west” of digital identification technologies
telecom | 11/22/2021 3:49 pm EST
The federal government is working with the...
Panelists call on government to rethink C-11
Media | 11/17/2021 4:59 pm EST
The Canadian government should broaden its consultation over its online harms bill, a Wednesday Canadian Internet Governance Forum (CIGF) panel hosted a 90-minute discussion on the topic of Regulating Online Harms in Canada.
One year ago the Trudeau government introduced...
CTS panelists hope privacy bill, C-11, ‘dies quickly,’ say Canada is losing ‘military edge’ in digital age
Media | 11/15/2021 9:07 pm EST
MISSISSAUGA -- Ontario’s former privacy...
UPDATED: Rayes replaced by John Nater as Heritage shadow minister
Media | 11/09/2021 3:24 pm EST
A Conservative MP who was outspoken on the revised Broadcasting Act, Bill...
RCMP seeks to develop encrypted data solutions for investigation purposes
telecom | 11/04/2021 5:03 pm EDT
The RCMP is looking for an artificial intelligence decryption system that...
Quebec court moves ahead with proposed class-action against Google
Media | 11/02/2021 5:30 pm EDT
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected an application by Alphabet...
Nova Scotia Department of Justice failed privacy obligations: watchdog
telecom | 10/28/2021 5:37 pm EDT
The Nova Scotia provincial privacy watchdog has admonished the province's...
Privacy Commish launching investigation into proof of vaccination requirements for federal workers
telecom | 10/22/2021 6:03 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner will be...
Google seeks to appeal court decision on PIPEDA application
Media | 09/29/2021 4:47 pm EDT
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is appealing a July court decision that determined...
RCMP looking to expand its digital policing services
telecom | 09/22/2021 6:37 pm EDT
The RCMP is seeking to expand its digital policing services, months after the Office of the Privacy...
Ontario privacy watchdog says province should update privacy law, even without feds
Media | 09/07/2021 5:59 pm EDT
The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC) says the province should move ahead with its own private sector privacy law, despite federal reforms...
Gov announces plans for Digital Safety Commissioner to combat online harms
Internet and Governance | 07/29/2021 6:11 pm EDT
The federal government intends to create a new Digital Safety Commissioner...
Court decides PIPEDA applies to Google search, “right to be forgotten” debate kept alive
Media | 07/09/2021 5:39 pm EDT
A court decision that Canada’s federal private...
Summer recess: your parliament update
Media | 06/25/2021 6:30 pm EDT
With Parliament rising this week for its summer break, a number of bills of interest to the broadcasting...
ArriveCAN app usage needs information safeguards: OPC’s Therrien
Media | 06/21/2021 6:00 pm EDT
The ArriveCAN app -- which travellers into Canada must now use to submit...
Online platforms should be held liable for child porn uploads, non-consensual content: Ethics Committee “Pornhub report”
Internet and Governance | 06/17/2021 6:18 pm EDT
Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.
The onus to protect individuals depicted in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and non-consensual...
Federal Court judge strikes elements of key-OPC affidavit in Facebook case
Media | 06/16/2021 5:02 pm EDT
A federal court judge has ruled on motions from both sides of a court...
NDP, advocates, call for action against exploitative content on porn sites; report heading to parliament
Media | 06/15/2021 5:07 pm EDT
Canada has laws that would hold companies...
RCMP violated Privacy Act: OPC; RCMP lied: Angus
Media | 06/10/2021 7:03 pm EDT
Four months after the federal privacy watchdog declared that Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass...
Canadians concerned about job loss, privacy with AI, but hopeful it will make life easier: Report
telecom | 06/07/2021 6:13 pm EDT
A report by the Department of Innovation, Science,...
CIRA poll finds Canadians support new privacy laws and cyber attack prevention measures
Media | 05/26/2021 6:19 pm EDT
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority...
OPC finds privacy protections of EdTech company lacking
Media | 05/21/2021 5:17 pm EDT
A Canadian educational technology company used by the York Region District...
New privacy law gives ‘more weight’ to commercial interests; needs ‘significant changes’: OPC
Media | 05/11/2021 6:22 pm EDT
Following an analysis of Bill C-11, the federal...
Privacy Commish wants power to triage complaints and requests
Media | 05/10/2021 6:42 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner needs to be able to decide what to...
Regulator needed to deal with tech-facilitated gender violence: report
Media | 04/30/2021 12:03 pm EDT
Canada should establish a centralized expert regulator for technology-facilitated gender-based violence, abuse and harassment (TFGBV), as current legislation fails to protect...
LinkedIn disputes privacy breach claims
Media | 04/29/2021 5:19 pm EDT
Professional networking platform LinkedIn will have its applications for a summary trial heard in the...
Experts question effectiveness of online harm regulator
Media | 03/31/2021 6:03 pm EDT
Panelists reflecting Wednesday on Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault’s...
OPC seeks future-proof updates to public sector privacy laws
telecom | 03/25/2021 7:36 pm EDT
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner wants Canada’s yet-to-be revamped...
Clearview AI engaged in illegal mass surveillance: privacy commissioners
Media | 02/03/2021 6:43 pm EST
The facial recognition technology company used by dozens of police...
Court should strike portions of OPC affidavit: Facebook
Media | 01/21/2021 6:30 pm EST
On the second day of a preliminary hearing into a dispute between Facebook and the federal privacy watchdog Thursday, the social media giant presented arguments to a Federal Court judge that the court should strike from the record a large portion of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner’s key affidavit. The larger case that could ultimately decide whether or not Facebook Inc. is in violation of Canadian privacy law. In arguments extending from the first day of the hearing on Tuesday, lawyers representing the website told judge Jocelyne Gagné that much of the evidence contained in...
Facebook, OPC square off in court over Cambridge Analytica report
Media | 01/20/2021 5:05 pm EST
The motto of Facebook Inc. is, famously, "move fast and break things." ...
New privacy legislation mixed bag in terms of enforcement, experts say
telecom | 12/18/2020 1:24 pm EST
When the federal government’s proposed new privacy legislation, Bill...
OPC finds Desjardins too passive about data protection prior to 2019 breach
telecom | 12/14/2020 2:48 pm EST
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...
OPC supports PIAC call for CRTC to clarify rules for tracing apps
telecom | 12/01/2020 5:48 pm EST
While it believes the CRTC's existing definition of "customer confidential...
Journalistic exemption under PIPEDA should apply to Google: CBC
Media | 11/26/2020 6:16 pm EST
In a case that could determine whether a "right to be forgotten" exists in...
OPC expresses concern over privacy rights in government’s PIPEDA update
Media | 11/20/2020 2:31 pm EST
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has responded to the Liberal government’s proposed new privacy legislation for the private sector — while the office “welcomes” Bill...
Gov’t tables PIPEDA reform, new consumer privacy legislation
Media | 11/17/2020 5:54 pm EST
The federal government introduced sweeping private-sector privacy law...
Government launches Privacy Act consultation
Media | 11/16/2020 6:34 pm EST
The federal government today announced that it is launching a public consultation on reviewing the Privacy Act, Canada's public sector privacy law. In a Monday evening release, the Department of Justice said that members of...
OPC seeks right for Canadians to push back on AI decision making
Media | 11/13/2020 8:14 pm EST
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has issued its anticipated proposals for regulating artificial intelligence (AI), recommending that Canadians be given...