In a feature for The Globe and Mail, Dentons’ Chantal Bernier, former interim privacy commissioner of Canada, writes about the “unusually high number of significant privacy law developments” Canadian businesses must contend with, including rules on online behavioral advertising, the Digital Privacy Act and the stricter privacy obligations Canadian businesses operating in the EU will face “with the adoption by the Council of Ministers of a position on the Draft European Regulation on Data Protection.” Bernier sums up the implications of each of the developments, noting, “As the landscape changes to bring privacy law in line with technological and commercial trends, Canadian businesses must study the road map in order to take the right course.”
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