Under this new legislation, the Commissioner's Office is now required to regularly review the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC's) compliance with the Privacy Act, the federal
public sector privacy law.
While allowing the vicarious liability claim to proceed, the Court held that the plaintiff could not found a claim on an alleged breach of the safeguarding provision in British Columbia's
public sector privacy act.
One matter of interest that was explored during a highly informative panel on civic participation and e-voting, raised the question of
whether public sector Privacy Impact Assessments should include a mandatory... [more]
Public sector breaches would be referred to the independent review officer that
oversees public sector privacy compliance: at the federal level, to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada; in Ontario, to the Information and Privacy Commissioner; in Manitoba, to the Ombudsman; etc. (Solely for convenience, the term «commissioner» is sometimes used in this paper to cover all such review officers.)
The Divisional Court agreed with the City that an employee's personal emails unrelated to their work would not be captured by
the public sector privacy legislation.
It points to
the public sector privacy laws in British Columbia and Nova Scotia and singles out Canadian federal government procurement of cloud services:
By way of preamble to this critique of the legislative half - measures introduced by the government, it is important to note that Canada already has both
a public sector Privacy Act and a private sector Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).