On December 17, 2014, the Alberta government passed the Amendments to Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act ("PIPA"), which allow the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by a trade union when certain conditions are satisfied. The Amendments respond to a November 2013 Supreme Court of Canada case that provisionally invalidated PIPA on the basis that it infringed trade unions' freedom of expression.

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