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What is data protection engineering?

You may have heard the phrase, “privacy engineering”, or “data protection engineering”. But what does it mean? Thankfully, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has recently released a document that provides clarification on the topic.

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2021/2022 cyber/data outlook: Anticipated changes to privacy laws in Canada

Privacy compliance was once a straightforward process of checking the right boxes — not much more than adequate consents and a privacy policy on a website — but that world no longer exists. We are in the midst of a global explosion of legislation governing data.

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Is secretly recording a workplace conversation just cause for termination?

More and more employees are secretly recording workplace conversations. Although it is not a crime to secretly record a workplace conversation if you are a party to it, one judge recently concluded it is just cause for termination. This blog post discusses this case.

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