Exploring Canada’s Top Privacy Challenges: Summary Report of the Canadian Privacy Summit 2016

Data privacy touches the economy, society, and individuals. There is increasing anxiety around privacy, and Canada needs to strike a balance between ensuring personal privacy and enabling organizations to sell and access personalized products and services.

To further our collective national understanding of key and emerging privacy issues in Canada, The Conference Board of Canada and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia co-hosted the Canadian Privacy Summit on April 13–14, 2016, in Vancouver, British Columbia. This report provides information and insights from many of Canada’s foremost privacy experts in the public and private sectors, as expressed at the summit, concerning the legislative environment for privacy and data, and other emerging privacy issues.