Canada's Mandatory Breach Notification Rules Now in Effect

ronjor · Nov 1, 2018

Mathew J. Schwartz November 1, 2018

Organizations Must Comply With Data Breach Reporting Requirements or Face Fines
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guest · Nov 2, 2019

A full year of mandatory data breach reporting: What we’ve learned and what businesses need to know
October 31, 2019
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/blog/20191031/

On November 1st of last year, businesses became subject to new mandatory breach reporting regulations under Canada’s federal private sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

Since reporting became mandatory, we’ve seen the number of data breach reports skyrocket. Some of those reports have involved well-known corporate names, but we have also seen significant volumes coming from small- and medium-sized businesses.
With nearly a year of experience under our belt, we’ve noticed a few things we’d like to share, and given we are at the anniversary of this important milestone, we couldn’t think of a better time to do it.
The Numbers
Since November 1st, 2018, we have received 680 breach reports. That is six times the volume we had received during the same period one year earlier. [...]
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