An interesting privacy case emerged last week involving Home Depot. The case provides some clear guidance on an area of vulnerability for most retailers around obtaining consent – point of sale. Last week the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of…
Read MorePrivacy and AI have been keeping us busy on the policy front at IAB Canada. ISED’s newly tabled Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 has a lot of new elements to unpack and we’re on the case. Aside from a revised private…
Read MoreIn late June 2022, ISED introduced the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 which includes Bill C-27 – a new Bill with several updates to our current federal private sector privacy law – PIPEDA. Also included in C-27, is the provision…
Read MoreThe number of Smart TVs in Canadian households is rapidly growing, and the amount of TV viewership data potentially available via automatic content recognition (ACR) has risen accordingly. True to its name — ACR is a technology that can be used…
Read MoreWe’ve been covering the topic of misinformation in the context of brand safety since the 2016 elections south of the border. For over two years, political misinformation has been exacerbated with health and safety topics related to Covid-19 creating some…
Read MoreIAB Tech Lab has released important guidelines on how platform privacy restrictions are impacting the podcasting sector. The comprehensive output sets out to: present a clear definition of the challenge describe how privacy mechanisms block audience metrics and their impact on…
Read MoreJust last week, on the heels of another high-profile brand finding themselves in hot water with the OPC, Minister Champaign expressed his party’s strong desire to get back to work on the Digital Charter and drafting new federal privacy legislation…
Read MoreThe release of IAB Tech Lab’s Global Privacy Platform this quarter marks an achievement of enormous effort involving stakeholders working together from across the globe for over 2 years. This week, Anthony Katsur, CEO of IAB Tech Lab, shared his…
Read MoreBy September 2022, any organization in Canada that works with the Quebec market will need to come into compliance with the newly amended Quebec privacy legislation. This slate of new requirements rolls out in phases and eventually, in 2023, we…
Read MoreJust last week the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Daniel Therrien released what could be his final op-ed as he inches closer to the end of his term. Referencing everything from 9/11 to Snowden, he tells the familiar tale calling out…
Read MoreIAB Canada hosted our Business of Digital: First-Party Data event this week. The discussion included a full slate of thought leaders that are on the frontlines, working with and shaping the future of this sustainable media fuel on the daily. …
Read MoreAs we review the recently released details behind the APD ruling on the IAB Europe TCF framework, we are collectively learning a great deal about the contours of the law itself and are working to better understand what kind of…
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