Canadians need stronger tools to help protect their online reputation: OPC

OTTAWA – Canadians need the right to ask search engines to de-index web pages that contain inaccurate, incomplete or outdated information in order to help protect their online reputation, says Canada’s Privacy Commissioner.The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) released a draft Position on Online Reputation in an effort to highlight existing protections in Canada's federal private sector privacy law, identify potential legislative changes, and propose other solutions for consideration.The report notes that current federal private sector privacy law provides for a right to de-indexing – which removes links from search results without deleting the content itself –...