Canadian privacy law is going from bad to worse, Bill C-27

Bill C-27 is a Bill in Canada that would replace the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) with the new so called Consumer Privacy Protection Act (CPPA). Although somewhat similar there are substantial differences to the previously proposed Bill C-11, Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020 as Bill C-27 is worse. From the point forward CPPA refers to the CPPA found in Bill C-27.

**1 The Protections** (or lack thereof)

Bill C-27 offers less protection than PIPEDA. Under PIPEDA …

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