Canada needs tougher privacy laws, says Privacy Commissioner

TORONTO – The Privacy Commissioner of Canada wants the federal government to update the country’s outdated privacy laws to provide stronger enforcement powers to penalize companies that don’t properly protect consumers’ personal information. During her keynote address to attendees at the 2013 Canada Privacy Symposium in Toronto today, commissioner Jennifer Stoddart released a position paper which offers a roadmap for modernizing Canada's federal private-sector privacy law so that it more effectively tackles current and future privacy issues. Stoddart described the dramatically different privacy landscape that existed when the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) came into force back...