Privacy Issues in Canada
Practical guidance on the privacy issues Canadians actually face. Each topic explains the law in plain language and points you to the right commissioner, tribunal, or remedy.
Data Breaches and Breach Notification
What Canadian law requires when your information is compromised, what businesses must do, and what you can do if you have been affected.
Read topicAccess Requests: Getting Your Information
How to ask an organization or government body for the personal information it holds about you, timelines, fees, and what to do if you are refused.
Read topicHealth Privacy Issues
What your health information includes, how the circle of care works, and what to do if your health records have been accessed or disclosed improperly.
Read topicWorkplace Privacy Issues
Monitoring, email surveillance, GPS tracking of company vehicles, workplace drug testing, and biometric time-clocks under Canadian law.
Read topicMeaningful Consent in Canadian Privacy Law
What makes consent valid, when express consent is required, and how to withdraw consent.
Read topicSurveillance: Cameras, Drones, and Recording
When video and audio surveillance is legal in Canada, including home security cameras, drone use, dashcams, and covert recording.
Read topicBiometric Privacy in Canada
Fingerprints, facial recognition, voice prints, and other biometric information receive heightened privacy protection under Canadian law.
Read topicIdentity Theft and Fraud in Canada
How to respond if your personal information has been stolen, and your rights under Canadian privacy, consumer reporting, and criminal law.
Read topicChildren's Online Privacy Issues
Privacy expectations for online services marketed to children, parental consent, behavioural advertising, and school technology.
Read topicAI and Automated Decisions
How Canadian law addresses artificial intelligence, automated decision-making, and algorithmic transparency.
Read topicSocial Media and Privacy
Your rights on social platforms, how Canadian law applies to US-based services, and what you can do about unwanted posts.
Read topicEmail Marketing and CASL
Your rights under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation, what counts as consent, and how to report violations to the CRTC.
Read topicNon-Consensual Intimate Images
Criminal and civil remedies when intimate images are shared without consent, including removal requests and police reports.
Read topicPolice, Surveillance, and Your Privacy
What police can and cannot do under the Charter, including searches of phones, vehicles, and homes, and the use of surveillance technology.
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