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As reports of yet another government security breach emerge, NDP MP Charmaine Borg has at least tried to kickstart the government's dormant private sector privacy reform efforts with a private member's bill
that would add mandatory security breach disclosure requirements to the
law along with new order making power. The government's own privacy
reform bill - Bill C-12 - has languished for years with no real effort
by Industry Minister Christian Paradis to move it forward. Moreover, the
bill has some serious faults, with no penalties for security breach, no
update to the Privacy Commissioner's powers, and provisions that make
organizations more likely to disclose personal information without
warrant during an investigation.
Bill C-475 is a far better proposal with amendments
to PIPEDA with more clear cut security breach disclosure requirements
along with order making power that is backed by significant penalties
for compliance failures. Those provisions would do far to ensure greater
respect for Canadian privacy law and give Canadians the assurance of
notifications in the event of security breaches. What the bill does not
do, however, is address the other side of the privacy coin, namely the
failure of government to hold itself accountable for the personal
information it collects and now regularly seems to fail to safeguard. Slashdot, Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsfeeder, Reddit, StumbleUpon, TwitterTagsShareWednesday February 27, 2013 |
