Announcement

December 19, 2019

OPC posts new summaries of cases involving businesses

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) today posted new summaries about cases involving businesses, examined by the OPC in accordance with, and to promote compliance with, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

• PIPEDA Report of Findings #2019-007: Credit reporting agency is authorized to rely on exemption to consent in disclosing credit information to Statistics Canada (Update)
• PIPEDA findings #2017-011: Financial institution originally misuses confidential commercial information exemption to withhold personal information
• PIPEDA findings #2017-010: Reasons for retaining customer credit card data explained

The OPC regularly publishes case summaries on its Investigations into businesses page to provide concrete examples of how PIPEDA applies to the day-to-day management of personal information by businesses.