CPPA summary

Canada’s new proposed privacy law, the CPPA, would be a major overhaul of PIPEDA. The draft law is designed to deal with new challenges of protecting personal information arising from major increases in the collection, use and disclosure of personal information and it uses in AI systems, IOT, big data analytics, and as part of many other technologies and processes. While the law is intended to balance the interests of individuals in their reasonable expectations of privacy and the legitimate interests of organizations, it falls short in many ways.…