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The Imminent Arrival of Canadian Breach Notification Legislation Should be a Welcome Change for Consumers, Private and Public Sectors - Expert Canadian security and privacy experts offer 5 recommendations to prepare for breach notification legislation and... More

The Imminent Arrival of Canadian Breach Notification Legislation Should be a Welcome Change for Consumers, Private and Public Sectors - Expert Canadian security and privacy experts offer 5 recommendations to prepare for breach notification legislation and adopt mature data protection measures Toronto, ON, December 30, 2009 -- Following recent public breaches in the private and public sectors in Canada, Alberta?s announcement of the arrival of a breach notification law is a welcome one. The recent BC privacy breach of 1400 social assistance accounts was compounded by the failure to notify the victims for seven months. This type of failure to notify the public should be prevented by new Alberta and BC laws requiring public and private organizations to disclose security and privacy breaches. According to Canadian security and privacy expert Claudiu Popa: ?The lack of breach notification legislation in Canada has been, for the past few years, a key point of divergence in the mature adop Less