Mere Compliance With Privacy Requirements By Corporations May No Longer Be Enough

Introduction

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (''OPC'') recently published a research paper entitled ''Privacy and Cyber Security: Emphasizing privacy protection in cyber security activities'' in which are outlined the common interests and tensions between privacy and cyber security. The report sets out key policy indications with a view to generating dialogue on cyber security as an important element of online protection, while acknowledging that cyberspace governance is a global issue.

Context

The OPC bases its report on the following factual premises. As technologies facilitating access to the Internet have become increasingly entrenched in everyday life, we increasingly depend on the cyberspace for a whole range of critical social and economic interactions. This ever-increasing reliance on cyberspace creates new and significant vulnerabilities which have in turn set the stage for increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats. This risk is