Canadian Underwriter has a lengthy article on S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, and its current status and concerns:
Canada’s House of Commons passed Thursday a time allocation motion on a bill that proposes to require organizations to inform both individuals and the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner if personal information is lost or stolen.
Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, would create new offences for deliberately failing to report data breaches to individuals and the federal privacy commissioner, with fines of up to $100,000 per every individual an organization failed to notify.
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The time allocation motion that passed Thursday stipulates that only one further sitting day be allotted to consideration at the report stage and second reading stage of Bill S-4, and that one sitting day be allotted to consideration of the bill at third reading in the Commons.
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