Can Your Employees And Customers Rely On You To Protect Their Personal Information?

This coming January 28, Quebec, like many other jurisdictions around the world, will be celebrating Data Protection Day. While governments launch public awareness campaigns to encourage the secure use of information technologies, Canadians are becoming more and more concerned about the security of their personal information held by various organizations. A 2013 study found that fully 66% of Canadians were "very concerned" about the degree to which their privacy was being protected¹. 

At the same time, another study involving 1,006 Canadian companies found that 55% of them had no personal-data protection policy and that 67% had no procedure in place for assessing the risks posed by their products, services or technologies to the privacy of consumers².