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Monday, 13 April 2026 07:08
Pragmatic Privacy: Reform of the Federal Privacy ActWritten by Teresa Scassa
This post is the second in a series on the consultation paper published by Treasury Board Secretariat on proposed reform of the federal Privacy Act. The first can be found here. This post focuses on the first of six themes in the document: Enabling integrated services. If I had to sum up the new consultation paper on reform of the Privacy Act, I would describe it as a document about pragmatic privacy. It is about…
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Monday, 06 April 2026 08:59
Consultation on long overdue Privacy Act reform promises a significant overhaulWritten by Teresa Scassa
Treasury Board Secretariat has published a discussion paper and launched a consultation into the long-overdue reform of the federal Privacy Act. The consultation is open until July 10, 2026. The Privacy Act, which came into force in 1983, has not had a significant overhaul since that time, although we have seen dramatic changes in how personal data are collected and used. The Privacy Act’s woeful state of disrepair is no secret. The statute has been…
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Intellectual Property for the 21st CenturyIntellectual Property Law for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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