The Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics will be tabling its report sometime soon following the resumption of Parliament on Monday, February 26th. The Report title will be “Towards Privacy by Design: A Review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.” The title provides a strong hint that the report will be advocating including an express obligation in PIPEDA to require organizations to adopt privacy by design and by default. If adopted, this would bring Canada’s laws one step closer to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will come into force on May 25, 2018. Privacy by Design is a made-in-Canada concept and so it would be fitting for it to “come home”.
Read my article for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) titled “Legislating privacy by design in Canada” here.
Learn about Privacy by Design here.
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