The Canadian privacy community has long circled January 1, 2004 on its collective calendar as the privacy equivalent of Y2K. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada’s national private-sector privacy legislation, kicks into full swing on that date, following three years of limited applicability to federally regulated […]
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