Necessary but not enough: Canada’s proposed new private-sector privacy law

Advances in technology and changes in business models have altered the role of data and how value is extracted from it.

Anonymized data requires a more holistic policy response than a backdoor out of a consent-based privacy law, writes Dr. Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa.Photograph by Nick Youngson, distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license, Pix4Free

Opinion

BY TERESA SCASSA

July 17, 2023

Bill C-27, currently before Parliament, promises to modernize Canada’s private sector data protection law with a new Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA). Yet even this title relies on an ou...

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