January 26, 2023 The Canadian division of Home Depot didn’t get customers’ consent before sharing details of customers’ e-receipts – including encoded email addresses and in-store purchase information – with Facebook parent Meta Platforms, says Canada’s privacy commissioner. more...
January 24, 2023 Canadian companies still aren’t doing enough to respect the privacy of residents, the federal privacy commissioner said in an interview marking Data Privacy Week. “In our annual report … we saw a number of instances more...
January 24, 2023 The federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to all businesses in Canada except those in B.C., Alberta, and Quebec. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) notes that PIPEDA more...
January 23, 2023 Ottawa lawyer Kris Klein advises Canadian organizations on how to set up policies and procedures to comply with federal and provincial data privacy legal obligations. But earlier this month he faced data collection as a more...
January 23, 2023 Here’s a quick primer on Canada’s data privacy laws for commercial firms: The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) applies to firms that collect personally identifiable information, unless there are provincial statutes. Some more...
January 20, 2023 A hacker leveraged an Application Programming Interface (API) to steal the personal information of 37 million customers over two months, undetected, from American cellular carrier T-Mobile. The acknowledgment by the carrier in a filing Thursday more...
January 11, 2023 Fourteen years after being introduced by a Canadian privacy commissioner, Privacy by Design (PbD) is about to become an international privacy standard for the protection of consumer products and services. On Feb. 8, the International more...
January 5, 2023 Meta Platforms has been fined €390 million (approximately $414 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for its handling of user data for serving personalized ads. The fines mark the end of two lengthy more...
January 5, 2023 As the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance, faces uncertainty and sanctions from the American government, 2023 will be critical. America has been working hard to clip TikTok's wings since last year. America has taken numerous more...
January 4, 2023 Twitter account information on 200 million users, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Donald Trump Jr., is now available for free on a hacker forum, according to security researchers. The researchers at Privacy Affairs, a more...
