OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog says there’s an urgent need for stronger laws to protect personal information — and for more money to help his office enforce them. In his annual report tabled Thursday, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Canadians cannot afford to wait several years until well-known shortcomings in the privacy laws are fixed. In his annual report tabled Thursday, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Canadians cannot afford to wait several years until well-known shortcomings in the privacy laws are fixed. Canadians need stronger privacy laws that will protect them when organizations fail to do so,” the report says. Peter Fleischer, Google’s global privacy counsel, says removing lawful information from search engines limits access and he suggests a right to be forgotten would infringe on freedom of expression.

Source: thestar September 27, 2018 17:26 UTC