Understanding Privacy : New Laws, New Challenges

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UNDERSTANDING CANADA'S NEW
PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT

In January 2001, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPED Act") came into effect for all federally-regulated companies and organizations. This act requires new standards and practices for managing personal information in the private sector. In January 2004, either the PIPED Act or "substantially similar" provincial legislation will be extended to provincially-regulated organizations as well.

The new laws will change the way private sector and government organizations gather and handle the personal information of clients, customers and personnel. It will alter the way business is done for both profit-making and non-profit organizations, in the office and on the Internet.

Day one will give you a thorough understanding of the essentials of the PIPED Act and how the office of the Privacy Commissioner operates in enforcing it. The afternoon of day one will spotlight provincial government plans for their own private-sector privacy legislation.

Whatever you do with personal information, you need to understand what this law means to you and how to apply it in your organization.

Your Conference Co-host and Workshop Leader

www.privacyscan.ca

Murray Long
President, Murray Long
& Associates Inc.

Murray Long is one of canada’s foremost consultants and trainers in the area of privacy issues, policy and legislation.

In 1993, he joined the Canadian Standards Association’s Technical Committee on Privacy as a representative of the Stentor companies and contributed to the development of the CSA Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information. This Code became the basis of Canada’s new new private sector privacy law, the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act.

Mr. Long was also the principal author of Making the CSA Privacy Code Work for You, a comprehensive workbook on applying the CSA Code, published by the Canadian Standards Association in 1996. In 1998 he established PrivacyScanTM, an information service on the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPED Act"). Today, PrivacyScan has become one of the most widely read and reliable sources of privacy information for private-sector organizations in Canada.

Over the past several years, Mr. Long has written numerous articles, spoken extensively and led many workshops on privacy issues. He also co-authored The Canadian privacy Law Handbook, a guide to understanding and applying the PIPED Act. Published in June 2000, less than two months after the passage of the Act, the book is the first annotated reference text on the Act.

As a privacy consultant, Mr. Long provides advice to many businesses and industry associations. His clients include companies in the communications, financial, transportation and retail sectors.

Murray Long
President, Murray Long & Associates Inc.
640 LaVerendrye Drive
Gloucester, Ontario
K1J 7C4
Tel: (613) 747-9651
Fax: (613) 747-6261
Email: murraylong@privacyscan.ca
Web: www.privacyscan.ca