Houses Privacy Committee needs to make Canada’s weak privacy protection legislation relevant
In order to have a greatly-strengthened data protection act, separate from access legislation, the House Privacy Committee must consider bold changes to the Privacy Act in conjunction with improving the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
A little-known parliamentary review of Canada's antiquated 1982 Privacy Act is underway. Their task is daunting: just how do you combat or at least slow down widespread “legal” and illegal sharing of and access to personal data, mitigate against “big data” mining, and restrict data profiling...
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