Privacy/Data Protection
We provide advice on the increasingly complex rules and the broad range of privacy issues regarding the collection, use, disclosure and management of personal information. We advise clients on:
- Compliance with all Canadian federal and provincial privacy legislations, Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)
- Developing and implementing privacy policies, notices and procedures compliant with privacy legislations
- Developing privacy governance compliance monitoring programs, including for Artificial Intelligence
- Cross-border privacy issues, including the transfer of personal information outside Canada
- Developing and performing comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments, and preparation of data inventories/data mapping
- Managing significant privacy breaches, and regulatory notifications to privacy regulators and impacted individuals
- Developing training and awareness programs
- Management of individual access rights’ requests for personal information
- Response to investigations and complaints filed with privacy regulatory authorities
- Privacy requirements on mergers and acquisitions, and negotiate privacy legislative provisions for business transactions
- Addressing workplace employee privacy issues and identifying privacy-compliant practices for processing employee personal information
- Developing and implementing data-classification and records-management programs
- Applying fair information management principles for the processing of personal information with Artificial Intelligence (AI).