February 28, 2023 Federal employees have been banned from using the Chinese-based TikTok video app on Canadian government-issued computing devices. “Effective Feburary 28, the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices,” Treasury Board president Mona Fortier more...
February 27, 2023 Canada’s federal privacy commissioner, along with three provincial privacy commissioners, has started an investigation into TikTok, examining how the video-streaming platform collects the personal data of Canadian users. The investigation is beginning now because class more...
January 30, 2023 Consumers and business leaders have different priorities when it comes to data privacy, according to recent studies by Cisco Systems. The contrast was revealed in the latest version of Cisco’s annual Data Privacy Benchmark Study, more...
January 30, 2023 Data Privacy Week should be a time when IT and business leaders discuss how to support the inclusion of privacy engineering in their products, services, and solutions, says the chief data and trust officer at more...
January 27, 2023 A British Columbia community college says personal information of some students and employees may have been copied by a cyber attacker earlier this month. Okanagan College, which has 17,000 students and 1,100 employees across several more...
January 27, 2023 Many boards don’t make put privacy as one of their organization’s priorities, a survey of professionals suggests. According to the annual state of privacy survey of members of ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems more...
January 27, 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 25, 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 25, 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 24, 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...
