In this article, we will outline the relevant national privacy and cybersecurity-related laws currently in effect in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States, as fellow common law countries.
This article in the Understanding Canadian Cybersecurity Laws series will focus on Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), which is the federal law dealing with spam and other electronic threats
In this article, we will venture into the realm of Canadian cybersecurity laws as they relate to interpersonal privacy, data breaches, network attacks, and other computer-related activities of a criminally malicious nature.
In this article, we will focus on the laws regulating private sector access to, use of, and disclosure of personal information as established in the PIPEDA.
The Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act were both implemented by the Canadian federal government in 1985 and have acted as a starting point for more recent legislation and privacy laws.