The Canadian Privacy Commissioner has earmarked $200,000 to fund another year of research into the field.
This year’s program will focus on:
* The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). This will include oversight models, consent provisions, trans-border data flows, identifying purposes and investigative activities.
* Workplace privacy. This will cover workplace monitoring, the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) or location devices to track employees and the overall application of Canadian privacy legislation to employee personal information.
* The collection, use and disclosure of DNA samples by the private sector. This will entail publicly available DNA analysis services for personal reasons such as paternity testing or genetically determined diseases and business reasons such as employee screening or identification.
“Canada must generate new knowledge to support the development of expertise in selected areas of privacy and data protection if we are to advance the privacy rights of Canadians,” said Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart in a statement.
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