Canada:
Data Protection & Privacy Laws 2019
05 December 2019
Miller Thomson LLP
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"I believe that some companies do understand their duty
while others are quite unaware of their obligations and the
potential risk of exposure they have. For example, the Office of
the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) just released a report
summarising the changes in breach reporting since mandatory
reporting was implemented in November 2018. The OPC found that the
majority of reports relate to unauthorised access. Now, some of
this was access by outside bad actors but a large portion of it was
access from within, such as employees with improper data access
permissions looking at what they were not supposed to be looking
at."
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