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Canada Dashboard Digest | Can Privacy Be a Business Driver for Canada? Related reading: IAPP Westin Scholar finds evolving privacy law 'exciting'

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With U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) revelations continuing to make international headlines, Bloomberg Businessweek reports “companies such as Vancouver-based Telus and Rogers Communications (RCI) in Toronto see opportunity in telling customers about Canada’s privacy protections.” For example, Canada’s Privacy Act “limits the amount of personal information the government can collect, use and disclose,” and the Communications Security Establishment “is forbidden by law from monitoring domestic communications,” the report states. However, Citizen Lab Director Ron Deibert offers a different perspective. “Anyone who would look to Canada as a safe haven would be fooling themselves,” he says, adding the idea that Canada’s privacy protections are greater than those in the U.S. “can actually become a bit of a tricky question, and one that is probably used more often for rhetoric than anything else.”
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