“PIPEDA is the federal legislative response to growing concerns over the protection and use of personal information that is accumulated by both public and private organizations in the course of their day-to-day operations. The Act sets out rules governing how such information should be handled by the organizations that collect it, and under what circumstances it may be disclosed, either to third parties or to the individual who is the subject of the information… The enactment of PIPEDA was motivated not only by the government’s concern with privacy issues within its borders, but also by privacy developments taking place in other countries with whom Canadians do business.”

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