Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, today launched a publication to guide utilities in how to ensure that consumers’ personal information is protected as the electrical grid becomes “smarter.” The Commissioner partnered with …

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
2000, c. 5P-8.6
[Assented to April 13, 2000]
Updated to include BILL C-29 – An Act to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (First Reading)
An Act to support …

Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart has asked Google Inc. to explain how its new social network, Buzz, has addressed privacy issues since its recent launch.
She also reminded Google officials in a conference call this week that …

The Ottawa-based Public Interest Advocacy Centre filed a complaint with privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart Monday about the “unnecessary and non-consensual use and disclosure of personal information” by Nexopia, an Edmonton-based social-networking site aimed at teens.
Nexopia.com …

B.C.’s acting privacy commissioner is calling on the provincial government to quickly appoint a chief privacy officer after the personal information of 1,400 welfare recipients was leaked.
Paul Fraser says in a report that the children’s …

VICTORIA — More than 1,400 people whose personal information was found by police in the home of a B.C. government supervisor last year should have been notified immediately of the privacy breach not seven months …

REGINA — Two Crown-run casinos in Regina and Moose Jaw, Sask., are no longer demanding personal information from people who pay cash for tickets to live stage shows.
Gary Dickson, the province’s information and privacy commissioner, …

It’s official, the Prime Minister is proroguing parliament until the beginning of March: CBC News – Politics – PM seeks Parliament shutdown until March. (Never mind that they’ve been on vacation since November.)
This means that …

Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, today directed the province’s health sector not remove from their premises any personal health information on mobile devices – unless this very sensitive information is encrypted, as …

TORONTO — Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner has launched an investigation after the health information of more than 83,000 people who attended H1N1 flu clinics in Durham Region, east of Toronto, was apparently lost.
A health …