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Customer privacy policies and employee handling of customer personal information

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

A weekend Toronto Star article reported that employees at the Canada Revenue Agency are improperly reviewing the private financial affairs of taxpayers. Some are using agency computers to give favoured treatment to colleagues, friends, family—and themselves…

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Tags: Canada Revenue Agency, CRA, customer personal information, disclosure of personal information, employment law, personal information, personal information protection, PIPA, PIPEDA, privacy, privacy and risk management, privacy breach, privacy legislation, privacy policy, privacy rights
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Amendments to PIPEDA disappoint privacy watchdogs

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

On May 29, the federal government introduced Bill C-29, the Safeguarding Canadians’ Personal Information Act, which makes substantial changes to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The Bill had been in development for several years, and one of its primary objectives was to address a significant gap in PIPEDA, the issue of mandatory disclosure of “material” breaches of personal information by the companies or organizations responsible.

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Tags: disclosure of personal information, employee personal information, employment law, Finance and Accounting PolicyPro, Human Resources, information breaches, Information Technology PolicyPro, Janet Lo, Michael Geist, not-for-profit policypro, personal information, personal information protection, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA, privacy, privacy breach, privacy legislation, Safeguarding Canadians' Personal Information Act
Posted in Human Resources, IT, Privacy and Security, Internal Controls, Privacy and Security | Make a Comment »

Privacy risk management – by design

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

I’ve discussed the Privacy by Design principle before, in the Inside Internal Control newsletter. In case you don’t know, PbD is an approach developed by Dr. Ann Cavoukian, the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, which proactively embeds privacy protection by default in the design of an organization’s practices and products.

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Tags: confidentiality, employee personal information, PbD, PbD principles, personal information, privacy, privacy and risk management, privacy by design, Privacy Commissioner, privacy legislation
Posted in Human Resources, IT, Privacy and Security, Internal Controls, Privacy and Security | Make a Comment »

When did privacy become such a huge issue?

Monday, March 29th, 2010

I guess you’ve heard about some of the privacy breaches of the past few years. You know, the one where a major Canadian bank faxed personal information on thousands of customers to two random businesses in West Virginia and Quebec, or where the public officials left work laptops or memory keys unattended with unencrypted private data on citizens and they were stolen, and on and on. What’s happening? Why are these accidents popping up so frequently now?

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Tags: ontario, privacy, privacy breach, privacy legislation
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Background checks: Of job applications and credit checks

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Starting in 2006, Mark’s Work Wearhouse in Alberta was running background credit checks on employees looking for work at the clothing store. Not criminal record checks; not general reference checks; credit checks.

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Tags: Alberta, background checks, credit checks, discrimination, employment reference, personal information, PIPA, privacy, privacy legislation, private sector privacy legislation, reference checking
Posted in Human Resources, Recruiting and Hiring | 4 Comments »

Don’t underestimate conflicts that arise from harassment

Friday, January 29th, 2010

One other session I attended at the 2010 Ontario HRPA conference was Andrew Lawson’s on Protecting your organization from the workplace bully. He made a couple of good points on the topic of workplace harassment that I would like to share with you.

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Tags: Andrew Lawson, Bill 168, bully, bullying, canadian employment law, harassment, harassment in the workplace, health and safety, HR issues, HRPA, Human Resources, occupational health and safety, Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act, privacy legislation, privacy rights, workplace conflicts, workplace harassment
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Disclosing persons with a history of violence

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

The Ontario Occupational Health and safety Act violence and harassment prevention provisions (Bill 168) require employers to provide information, including personal information, about a person with a history of violent behaviour if:

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Tags: Bill 168, Bill 168 violence, disclosure of personal information, disclosure of persons with a history of violence, human rights, OH&S, OHSA, Ontario Human Rights Code, Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act, personal information, privacy legislation, privacy rights, private sector privacy legislation
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