The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (aka PIPEDA) and other Canadian and international laws.
The author of this blog,
David T.S. Fraser, is a Canadian privacy lawyer who practices with the
firm of McInnes Cooper. He is the author of the Physicians' Privacy Manual. He has a national and international practice advising corporations and individuals on matters related to Canadian privacy laws.
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This web site is presented for informational purposes only. These materials do not constitute legal advice and do not create a solicitor-client relationship between you and David T.S. Fraser. If you are seeking specific advice related to Canadian privacy law or PIPEDA, contact the author, David T.S. Fraser.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
An employee of a Canadian company with a LiveJournal nickname of Vivace ma con Grazia is writing about his experience dealing with a request for access to personal information under PIPEDA. He's not happy.
Vivace ma con Grazia - The PIPEDA Saga, Part 1In January 2004, some absolutely lovely Canadian legislation came into effect, known as The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (or, more concisely PIPEDA). The whole thing is maddeningly complex from my point of view, but in short it serves to both prevent the sharing of an individual's personal information by corporations, and to allow individuals to request of Canadian corporations a complete disclosure of all personal information held by that corporation about the individual in question. At work, I am currently working on my share of a response to one of these information requests. And let me tell you, it's one royal pain in the ass....
Over the course of a few postings here, I'm going to try to share some of the techniques we develop for handling this search. I'll likely skip over how we manage the search of our paper records, since I'm not very involved with that, but I will try to provide some technical details of our electronic searches, and hopefully (when I can get approval to do so) some of the details of our decision making process. I'm hoping this will be useful to some poor sysadmin in the future.
Labels: information breaches, privacy
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