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UN Special Rapporteur releases privacy report

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Ana Brian Nougrères, released a report in December, 2022 suggesting that it was necessary to take a look at all of the data that was collected in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic—from millions of people in all countries—and ask some critical questions.

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Hefty GDPR fine for Meta

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been fined €265 million (about $275 million) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (Commission) following an inquiry that commenced in April, 2021.

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Mandatory data breach reporting – a message from the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

On October 31, 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada shared what has been learned and what businesses need to know with respect to mandatory data breach reporting under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

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