Privacy topics
In today’s society, personal information is collected and used extensively, by individuals and organizations, for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology have a particularly significant impact on the ease with which personal information can be collected, used, shared and combined, introducing new challenges for the protection of personal information.
Explore the topics on this page to learn about privacy issues and find a wide variety of useful information for individuals, businesses and federal institutions.
Privacy laws
Businesses (PIPEDA), government (Privacy Act), provinces, sectors
AI, technology and innovation
Artificial intelligence (AI), social media, cloud computing, and mobile apps
Health information, genetics and biometrics
Privacy practices related to highly sensitive personal information
Airports and borders
Screening, customs, outsourcing, transferring data
Age assurance
Guidance for websites, online services and age assurance developers
SINs and driver’s licences
Protecting, appropriate uses
Information and advice for individuals
Your rights, protection tips, children, online, devices, raising concerns and complaints
Privacy for businesses
Collecting information, consent, children, advertising, spam, safeguards, breaches, complaints, outsourcing
Accessing personal information
Requests to businesses and federal government, obligations for organizations
Employers and employees
Privacy in an employment context
Surveillance
Video surveillance by businesses and governments, police, financial tracking, public safety
Investigations
Businesses, federal institutions, processes and reports of findings
Federal government privacy
Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs), public interest disclosures, breach reporting, outsourcing
Landlords and tenants
Tenant privacy rights and landlord obligations
Identities
Identification and authentication, identity theft
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