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Bill C-6 Privacy legislation and how it may affect you

Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act, often referred to as the Privacy legislation, is intended to protect the confidentiality of an individual's personal information. Personal information includes things like SIN number, salary, employee files, benefit claims, even opinions and social status.

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Page last update... Sunday, April 21, 2002

Bill C-6 Summary

Bill C-6 establishes the following principles to govern the collection, use and disclosure of personal information: accountability, identifying the purposes for the collection of personal information, obtaining consent, limiting collection, limiting use, disclosure and retention, ensuring accuracy, providing adequate security, making information management policies readily available, providing individuals with access to information about themselves, and giving individuals a right to challenge an organization's compliance with these principles.

Understanding and preparedness

will be key

to avoiding associated issues.

Understanding and preparedness

will be key

to avoiding associated issues.

Bill C-6 further provides for the Privacy Commissioner to receive complaints concerning contraventions of the principles, conduct investigations and attempt to resolve such complaints. Unresolved disputes relating to certain matters can be taken to the Federal Court for resolution.

The law became effective for federally regulated employees on January 1, 2001, and will apply to the commercial activities of all Canadian companies not later than January, 1, 2004. There is an exemption from the application of the law to personal health information until January 1, 2002. In the event that provinces enact similar legislation, the provincial legislation will take precedence over the federal legislation. The province of Quebec has already enacted legislation and other provinces are likely to follow.

The legislation is sure to have impacts on many firms who collect and store an employees personal information since consent is required from the individual for the collection, use or disclosure of the information. The law prescribes standards of protection for the privacy of the information while it is resident with the employer.

CDA provides this update in good faith and is not accountable or responsible for any errors, inaccuracies, omissions or interpretations in the above update.

We strongly advise the reader to accesses details of the legislation directly and consults with appropriate legal advisors before acting upon the information portrayed.

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