How to protect your personal information when it is transferred across borders

Guidelines

Guidelines for Processing Personal Data Across Borders

News Releases

Privacy Commissioner expresses support for government's new strategy to deal with trans-border flows of personal information.
April 6, 2006

Privacy Commissioner calls for further examination of transfer of personal information about Canadians across borders.
August 18, 2004

• Submission of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (PDF version).

Speeches

Privacy: An Emerging and Essential Profession
IAPP Privacy Academy
Address by Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
19-Oct-06

Taking on the Privacy Challenges Ahead
7th Annual Privacy and Security Conference: Privacy and Security is Everyone's Responsibility
Address by Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Victoria, British Columbia
9-Feb-06

The Latest Developments in Privacy Compliance: PIPEDA Review and the USA PATRIOT Act
11th Annual Meeting on Regulatory Compliance for Financial Institutions
Address by Heather Black, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
18-Nov-05

Privacy Protection in a World of Transborder Data Flows
Working Party on Information Security and Privacy Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Paper submitted by Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Paris, France
3-Oct-05

Privacy and the USA PATRIOT Act: The Impact of the U.S. legislation on Canadian IT business
5th Annual IT Law Spring Training Program
Address by Ann Goldsmith, Legal Counsel
Toronto, Ontario
11-May-05

Privacy without Borders: Responding to Globalization
Security & Privacy Conference â?” Synergies in an e-Society
Address by Heather Black, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of CanadaVictoria, British Columbia
11-Feb-05

Fact Sheet

What Canadians Can Do to Protect Their Personal Information Transferred Across Borders