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Personal Health Information Protection Act

By SpringLaw | 2 Minutes Read August 11, 2021

Private sector privacy legislation – Is it coming to Ontario?

In June, the Ontario government released a White Paper entitled Modernizing Privacy in Ontario Empowering Ontarians and Enabling the Digital Economy, which sets out a proposal for privacy legislation that would apply to the private sector.

Article by SpringLaw / Business, Information Technology, Not for Profit, Privacy / Bill C-11, Employee privacy, oipc, Personal Health Information Protection Act, personal information collection, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PIPEDA, privacy, privacy legislation, private sector privacy legislation

By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 5 Minutes Read July 21, 2020

Findings of investigation: LifeLabs breach

On June 25, 2020, the Ontario and British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioners just shared the results of their joint investigation regarding a serious breach that took place in 2019 – the findings revealed that LifeLabs, Canada’s largest provider of general health diagnostic and specialty laboratory testing services, failed to protect the personal health information of millions of Canadians.

Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Employee Relations, Privacy / cybersecurity, employment law, LifeLabs, LifeLabs Breach, personal health information, Personal Health Information Protection Act, Personal Information Protection Act

By SpringLaw | 3 Minutes Read August 8, 2019

Workplace data theft – Protect your company with best practices

The Capital One Data Breach has been big news lately, and for good reason. It’s a big deal. This breach compromised the data of over 100 million Capital One customers. Instead of a shadowy overseas hacker or a creepy crawler from the dark web, the hacker was a former employee of the cloud hosting company through which Capital One stored their data.

Article by SpringLaw / Employee Relations, Privacy / Capital One data breach, data governance, data theft, employment law, Personal Health Information Protection Act, personal information, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, PHIPA, privacy compliance practices, private data storage

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