Privacy Commissioner Examines Cyber Security

The increasing cyber security threat continues to raise a series of privacy risks for organizations. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has been regularly focusing on cyber security in letters of findings and guidance and, most recently, in a report, entitled "Privacy and Cyber Security: Emphasizing privacy protection in cyber security activities".

The OPC's report examines the interrelationships between cyber security and privacy, and discusses a number of common challenges for cyber security and privacy, including:

• The complexity of electronic, interconnected networks
• Increasingly sophisticated cyber threats and the "professionalization" of hacking
• Threats to mobile devices, which are closely tied to individual users