Telus first to achieve privacy by design certification

VANCOUVER – Telus Communications announced Wednesday it has made a historic achievement by becoming the first company in the world to be awarded ISO 31700-1 Privacy by Design certification. The certification, developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in partnership with former Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario Dr. Ann Cavoukian, was awarded to Telus’s Data for Good program, which is powered by the Telus Insights platform and focuses on leveraging de-identified mobility data for social good. “The Data for Good program, launched in 2017 and winner of the 2020 HPE-IAPP Privacy Innovation Award, offers researchers access to high-quality, strongly de-identified and aggregated...