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Tuesday, 02 August 2022 09:28
Bill C-27 and a human rights-based approach to data protectionWritten by Teresa Scassa
Privacy is a human right. It is recognized the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments. In Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada has interpreted the. 8 Charter right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure as a privacy right, and it has also found that data protection laws in Canada have ‘quasi-constitutional’ status because of the importance of the privacy rights on which they are premised. The nature…
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Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts on Canada's Bill C-27 which, among other things, will reform Canada's private sector data protection law. Bill C-27, the bill to amend Canada’s existing private sector data protection law, gives particular attention to the privacy rights of minors in a few instances. This is different from the current law, and it is a change since the previous (failed) reform bill, Bill C-11. The additions to…
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