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..., such as law enforcement or national security (e.g., the Royal Canadian Mounted Police), enabling... Program Lead Directorate: Policy, Research and Parliamentary Affairs Directorate Background The OPC... Lead Directorate: Business Advisory Directorate Background The Business Advisory Directorate (BA...

...-based privacy law is of course to protect privacy in all its breadth and scope, as a fundamental... Commissioner Speech Remarks at the University of Ottawa’s Centre for Law, Technology and Society January 28...) Introduction Thank you for that introduction and thank you to the Centre for Law, Technology...

...agencies, as well as stronger laws to provide the protection that Canadians expect and deserve... privacy law. ISED’s discussion paper, The Future of Competition Policy in CanadaFootnote 1, seeks feedback on a variety of topics, many of which are particular to competition law. As our expertise...

..., and freedom of thought.Footnote 6 Criminal Code sanctions, together with privacy law requirements, have set... privacy law. PIPEDA applies to organizations that collect, use and disclose personal information... with the public interest and Canadian telecommunications policy as set out under the Telecommunications Act...

...other parties to the accident and the adjuster, but certain information was withheld on the grounds... obtained from the legal firm were five reports. The law firm claimed that it withheld the reports on the grounds of solicitor-client privilege and that they were confidential work product prepared...

...cannot be just set aside. Privacy laws can apply flexibly and contextually, but they must apply... – most notably after 9-11. So far, things have been better during the COVID crisis. To be sure, laws... our privacy laws. Current federal laws are simply not up to protecting our rights in a digital environment...

...with strong privacy laws are also leaders in innovation.” The submission sets out some 60 recommendations... private sector privacy law would be “a step back overall” from the current law and needs significant... government’s proposed new private sector privacy law. In the submission, he notes, the bill is frequently...

...to national security; and 4.7 would allow FINTRAC to disclose information to a police force... of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) that did not meet the threshold of “reasonable grounds to suspect” that the transaction was related to money laundering or terrorist financing; The scope...

...on the grounds that banks by law collect social insurance numbers (SINs) for revenue reporting purposes...

...of ordinary, law-abiding citizens being collected and shared. This sets up the prospect of profiling and Big... of “relevance” which exposes the personal information of law-abiding citizens. Notions of proportionality... has jurisdiction to review the general lawfulness or effectiveness of the activities of 14 of the 17...