Privacy Canada

• Proposed federal privacy changes could set back spy operations, CSIS warns

  CSIS expresses particular concern about defining personal information in the law in an overly broad way, potentially making the intelligence service's job more difficult.

  Canada

  May 17, 2020
  
• COVID-19 tracing apps come with privacy risks to Canadians, watchdogs warn

  Federal privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien says the health crisis calls for some flexibility when it comes to the application of privacy laws.

  Canada

  May 7, 2020
  
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• Statistics Canada failed to disclose key info about project to harvest bank data

  Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said Statistics Canada fell 'way short' of its stated objective of being transparent.

  Canada

  Nov 8, 2018
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• NDP joins Conservatives, asks Trudeau Liberals to shut down controversial StatCan projects

  The Liberals defended a Statistics Canada plan to harvest personal financial information from hundreds of thousands of Canadians without consent.

  Politics

  Nov 2, 2018