Experts question role of data commissioner as feds finally earmark funds

'How is that going to fit with the Competition Bureau and privacy commissioner, because those two agencies have really been leading the charge when it comes to data issues?' asks Ottawa U Prof. Teresa Scassa.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland present the 2021 federal budget, which included money for a data commissioner two years after the 2019 Liberal platform promised the new role. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY

May 5, 2021

Buried in the 2021 federal budget is little more than a paragraph on creating a new regulator aimed at balancing the interests of personal privacy and companies trying to operate in a big data economy in the next few years. The ...

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