GATINEAU, QC – Emerging privacy issues such as fitness tracking devices, lawful access, and children and mobile privacy are among the projects that will receive funding this year from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC).
OPC said Wednesday that it received 39 proposals for the 2015-16 funding cycle of the Contributions Program and selected nine. (Click here for the list of this year’s recipients and their proposed projects.) The Contributions Program was created in 2004 to support arm's length, non-profit research on privacy, further privacy policy development, and promote the protection of personal information in Canada.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Daniel Therrien also announced that the Contributions Program has been renewed for another five years following an independent evaluation.
"The Contributions Program is considered to be one of the foremost privacy research funding programs in the world and has made a significant contribution to developing privacy knowledge in Canada and beyond. We are very pleased that the Program will continue to support this important work," said Commissioner Therrien, in a statement. "The projects selected this year will help build a greater understanding of new risks to privacy and also provide individuals and organizations with information about how to better protect personal information in a constantly evolving environment."
