The Conference Board of Canada recently unveiled its new Cyber Security Centre, which aims to assess the ever-changing state of cyber security at the strategic and policy level.
"This is an area that is evolving at break-neck speed. New technology and public pressure have pushed Canada and its closest economic partners to seriously re-think and re-negotiate how they protect the privacy of their citizens," said Conference Board of Canada director of National Security and Strategic Foresight Satyamoorthy Kabilan.
"Both the United States and Canada are in the process of implementing significant enhancements to their privacy protections, creating new compliance requirements for organizations and granting citizens more rights and legal recourse if their data is misused. In addition, the downfall of the longstanding EU–U.S. Safe Harbor privacy agreement in late 2015 has forced a fundamental redesign of the U.S.'s trans-Atlantic privacy protection system," Kabilan further stated.
The Centre had published its first research report, dubbed
Private Matters: Regulating Privacy in Canada, the European Union and the United States.
The report highlighted notable trends that businesses should immediately address to “maintain proactive privacy compliance.” The report raised points, which include: addressing issues of consent to data collection; how prompt breach notifications should be; the borderless nature of e-commerce; enumerating the rights of those who have consented to data collection; and balancing between protecting the public and asking the public to contribute to its own protection.
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