Europe’s privacy law tells a cautionary tale for Canada’s Digital Charter

It’s time for Canada to act. Our policy-makers have the capability to modernize privacy protection without creating hard barriers to essential aspects of business in the digital age.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien, pictured Dec. 9, 2021.
Unnecessarily complex rules, staggering regulatory costs, and barriers to innovation and small business are just a few of the pitfalls that Europe is facing as a result of its privacy law—the GDPR. As Canada prepares to reform its own private sector privacy law to implement key aspects of its Dig...

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