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Comment: Quebec's strict new privacy law could become model for Canadian provinces

By Amy Miller ( October 1, 2021, 22:04 GMT | Comment) -- Mismanagement of personal data will no longer be tolerated in Quebec, politicians have made clear with the passage of Canada’s strictest privacy law. As efforts to update the country's aging federal privacy statute continue to lag, Canada's provincial governments have taken on privacy reform hoping to keep pace with European privacy standards and stay competitive in global e-commerce. The province of Quebec has been the first to succeed, enacting a privacy law that's stricter in some ways than Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. It likely won't be the lastMismanagement of personal data will no longer be tolerated in Quebec, politicians have made clear with the passage of Canada’s strictest privacy law....

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