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Home Depot disclosed personal information without valid consent

On January 26, 2023, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) found that Home Depot disclosed a customer’s personal information to Facebook (now Meta) without his knowledge or consent contrary to PIPEDA. Consequently, Home Depot needed to implement the OPC’s recommendations, which it did following the investigation.

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Consumer directed finance: Open banking in Canada

On January 31, 2020, Canada’s Advisory Committee on Open Banking (the Committee) released its report, “Consumer-directed finance: the future of financial services” (the Report), moving Canada towards the next phase in its process of implementing open banking legislation.

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