Canada: “Once More Unto the (Data) Breach”…Looking back at Twelve Months of Mandatory Breach Notifications – Lexology

As described in numerous previous articles over the course of 2019, the past year saw an unprecedented number of breach notifications in Canada. In Europe, under the scrutiny of the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”), there were a whopping 89,200 notifications in the first twelve months of the GDPR coming into force in May 2018.

To round out this turbulent year, we thought it was time to revisit the developments since the beginning of the year, as well as take note of the important recent summary by the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (“OPC”). With that, “once more unto the (data) breach…”

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