Here at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium in Toronto, federal Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien used his opening keynote address to announce a new sweeping, public consultation on the nature of consent and to call for an update to the “archaic” Privacy Act that covers the handling of citizen data. “It’s no longer clear,” he said, “who’s processing our data and for what purposes.” Therrien is specifically calling on Parliament to at least hold public institutions to the same standards to which they hold private organizations, reports Publications Director Sam Pfeifle in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor.
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