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Organizations are responsible for understanding their specific obligations under the legislation to which they are subject.

While all of these Acts are based on the same underlying principles, some differences exist. It reflects the principles underlying the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA) and its substantially similar provincial counterparts: the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act the British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act and, the Quebec Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector Footnote 2. This document is being jointly issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“ OPC”) and the Offices of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (“ OIPC-AB”) and British Columbia (“ OIPC-BC”).

Consent should remain central, but it is necessary to breathe life into the ways in which it is obtained.īuilding on previous publications examining the current state of consent, including challenges and potential solutions Footnote 1, this document sets out practical and actionable guidance regarding what organizations should do to ensure that they obtain meaningful consent. However, advances in technology and the use of lengthy, legalistic privacy policies have too often served to make the control – and personal autonomy – that should be enabled by consent nothing more than illusory. Under privacy laws, organizations are generally required to obtain meaningful consent for the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. Meaningful consent is an essential element of Canadian private sector privacy legislation.