Commencing January 1, 2019, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will begin enforcing Guidelines for obtaining meaningful consent, which impose new requirements for private sector organizations to obtain legally valid privacy consents. The Guidelines criticize "the use of lengthy, legalistic privacy policies", and explain that the requirements and recommendations in the Guidelines are intended to "breathe life" into the ways that organizations obtain privacy consents. Compliance with the Guidelines will likely require many organizations to revise their privacy policies/notices and adjust some of their personal information practices and procedures.
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