privacy compliance practices

Workplace data theft – Protect your company with best practices

August 8, 2019 Lisa Stam, Spring Law Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Privacy and Security, 0

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.

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

Recent reports regarding privacy: 2018-2019 survey of Canadians on privacy and 2017 survey of Canadian businesses on privacy-related issues

June 3, 2019 Christina Catenacci Employee Relations, HR Policies and Procedures, Human Resources, Privacy and Security, 0

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has a mandate to protect and promote privacy rights of Canadians, and this includes conducting public opinion research with the general population and also with Canadian businesses on privacy-related issues.

data breaches, employment law, online personal information, Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, personal privacy, PIPEDA, privacy, privacy compliance practices, privacy policies, privacy rights