Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart says the complaints-based system for regulating privacy breaches may not be up to snuff and that her office may need the power to levy fines to get companies to pay attention.
Stoddart made the comments Wednesday in a speech to the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa.
The commissioner discussed the priorities her office as parliamentarians prepare to conduct a five-year, statutory review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
Read more on The Wire Report.