Once you have read those, we would encourage you to learn about accountability with our Getting Accountability Right with a Privacy Management Program document, developed in conjunction with the Information and Privacy Commissioners of Alberta and British Columbia. Securing personal information: A self-assessment tool for organizations.Tips for containing and reducing the risks of a privacy breach.The OPC has other materials that you can read and use for training. What the OPC can do is refer information relating to the possible commission of an offence to the Attorney General of Canada, who would be responsible for any ultimate prosecution.įor additional information you can read what the law says. The OPC does not prosecute offences under PIPEDA or issue fines. Under PIPEDA it is an offence to knowingly contravene PIPEDA’s reporting, notification and record-keeping requirements relating to breaches of security safeguards, and doing so could lead to fines. Large and small business will be subject to PIPEDA requirements to report and notify breaches of security safeguards that pose a real risk of significant harm, and to keep records of all breaches of security safeguards. What is a breach of security safeguards?Ī breach of security safeguards is defined in PIPEDA as: the loss of, unauthorized access to or unauthorized disclosure of personal information resulting from a breach of an organization’s security safeguards that are referred to in clause 4.7 of Schedule 1 of PIPEDA, or from a failure to establish those safeguards. If you want to read the legal provisions relating to breaches of security safeguards, you can read them in PIPEDA and in the Breach of Security Safeguard Regulations. You will also learn about your obligation to keep records of breaches and what information needs to be included.
#Define breach versus breech how to
You will learn how to determine what breaches of security safeguards (also referred to in this document as breaches) have to be reported to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada ( OPC), and what kind of notice you need to give individuals. Overview What will I learn from this guidance?
Organizations subject to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA) are required to:
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