OTTAWA — Canada’s military spies can collect and share information about Canadian citizens —

Credit reporting giant Equifax has spent nearly $1.4 billion on cleanup costs as well as overhauling its information security program following its massive 2017 data breach.

Advances in technology, such as the increase in data mining, the spread of smartphones and tablets, and improvements in internet connectivity, have created a data-rich world where the economic and social value of personal data has increased immensely.

The experts I spoke with also saw concepts in the GDPR that were naturally complimentary to PIPEDA. Concepts like “accountability” and “privacy by design” could, and perhaps, should be given prominence in legislative amendments to PIPEDA.

It’s time to tally up August's breaches. The volume of breaches is actually rather low in comparison to recent months; however, the number of leaked records is a staggering 215,009,428

The EU-US Privacy Shield offered US businesses an opportunity to meet GDPR requirements prior to enforcement actions, yet the US government continued to neglect data privacy, positioning the EU Parliament to force a unified data protection standard by suspending the Privacy Shield

Being alert to how our data is being used and asking why it’s being gathered in the first place equips us with the skills we need to protect our digital DNA.

Nearly 3 years after passing amendments to Canada’s federal private sector privacy law to include mandatory breach notification and record-keeping requirements, the Government has finalized some related regulations and announced that the new obligations will come into force on November 1, 2018.

The harsh truth is that our technology-filled lives are leaving us open to security risks at practically every turn. It’s so widespread that the 2017 Annual Cybercrime Report predicted that by 2021 cyber crime damages will cost the world roughly $6 trillion annually.

Depending on the size of your organization and the information security measures you have implemented, applying the GDPR’s requirements can be a big challenge.