Bill 64, also known as the Act to Modernize Legislative Provisions Respecting the Protection of Personal Information, was introduced by the Quebec government to update privacy laws and strengthen the protection of personal information. It aims to align the province’s legislation with modern challenges in data protection and privacy. We will review what we think […]
We can all help the CRTC enforce CASL. Report all of your spam messages to spam@fightspam.gc.ca. If we all forward our spam to the Spam Reporting Centre, the bad actors will pop up like tall poppies. The CRTC will know who to investigate for what and fines/undertakings/violations will follow when appropriate. Here are the Enforcement […]
New Rules for Consent in Canada – a deeper dive… Quebec recently passed Bill 64, changing the privacy and data protection landscape in Canada yet again. In this article we will address: Many businesses do not currently track and record consent for data processing. There has never been a need to do so, therefore most […]
Until now, we have not really been required to implement practices or processes to track and record consent to use an individual’s personal data when conducting business. For the most part over the past 20 years, we collected and bought what we could and then “followed the technology” to determine what we could do with […]
One of the compliance issues of virtually every data protection law globally is PROVING you have consent to use personal data to help you conduct your business. Make no mistake, most businesses believe they have consent, but cannot definitively PROVE it. When we ask clients for proof of consent, they stutter and stammer and change […]