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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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The Digital Implementation Act: problems and criticisms – appropriate purposes

Canada is planning to revamp its comprehensive privacy law by repealing the existing comprehensive privacy law, PIPEDA, and by enacting Bill C-27, the Digital Implementation Act (“DIA”) to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA), Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act (PIDTA), and Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA).

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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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