Canada:
Preparing For Compliance With New Privacy Consent Guidelines
17 September 2018
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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Commencing January 1, 2019, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
will begin enforcing Guidelines for obtaining meaningful
consent, which impose new requirements for private sector
organizations to obtain legally valid privacy consents. The
Guidelines criticize "the use of lengthy, legalistic privacy
policies", and explain that the requirements and
recommendations in the Guidelines are intended to "breathe
life" into the ways that organizations obtain privacy
consents. Compliance with the Guidelines will likely require many
organizations to revise their privacy policies/notices and adjust
some of their personal information practices and procedures.
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