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The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA; French: Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels et les documents électroniques) is a Canadian law relating to data privacy. [2] It governs how private sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial business.
H.J. Heinz Co. of Canada Ltd. v Canada (Attorney General), 2006 SCC 13 — affirms that a third party can object to the disclosure of information under the Access to Information Act on the basis that it would disclose personal information about another individual.
The first instance of a formal law came when, in 1977, the Canadian government introduced data protection provisions into the Canadian Human Rights Act. [2] In 1982, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms outlined that everyone has "the right to life, liberty and security of the person" and "the right to be free from unreasonable search or ...
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), [1] abbreviated GDPR, or RGPD (French for Règlement général sur la protection des données, Italian for Regolamento generale sulla protezione dei dati and Romanian for Regulamentul general privind protecția datelor) is a European Union regulation on information privacy in the European Union (EU) and the European Economic ...
In Canada, the Access to Information Act allows citizens to demand records from federal bodies. The act came into force in 1983, under the Pierre Trudeau government, permitting Canadians to retrieve information from government files, establishing what information could be accessed, mandating timelines for response. [10]
The European Directive on Data Protection that went into effect in October 1998, includes, for example, the requirement to create government data protection agencies, registration of databases with those agencies, and in some instances prior approval before personal data processing may begin. In order to bridge these different privacy ...
Canada: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act 2000 (PIPEDA) [8] Canada: Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act 2010 [9] Canada: Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation 2014 (CASL) [10] China: Regulations on Internet email Services: 30 March 2006 [5] Colombia: Law of Habeas Data § 6: 31 December 2008 [11] Croatia: Electronic ...
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