Canada’s PIPEDA

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) is a federal privacy law that governs how private-sector firms handle personal information in the course of business. The goal of PIPEDA is to balance individuals’ privacy rights with organizations’ legitimate needs to gather, utilize, and disclose personal information for justifiable purposes. With the exception of Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia, which have their own private sector privacy rules that are largely identical to PIPEDA, PIPEDA applies to all private-sector entities that collect, use, or disclose personal information during commercial activities.