Privacy commissioner calls for more legal remedies to harmful personal information
TORONTO — Canada’s privacy commissioner says he believes Parliament should put in place new legislated remedies to deal with potential harms from having personal information widely and easily available on the internet.
Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien says Canada doesn’t explicitly recognize a “right to be forgotten,” as in the European Union.
But Therrien thinks Canada’s privacy laws could be used to compel companies to de-index information in their databases.
De-indexing information would make it more difficult to find without removing it from the database.