Parliamentary Committee Recommends Substantial Revisions To PIPEDA

On February 28, 2018, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics tabled in the House of Commons a report entitled "Towards Privacy by Design: Review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act".

The statutory review of Canada's federal privacy legislation has been underway for a year, and the Report addresses many of the challenging issues raised by the development of new technologies for the use and dissemination of information. The recommendations in the Committee's Report are also heavily influenced by the direction set in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, ("GDPR") which comes into force this year.