Adapting to Canada’s Overhaul of Privacy Legislation

Following suit with gold-standard privacy laws and regulations like the GDPR in Europe and Quebec’s Law 25, Canada will soon be making the largest overhaul of its private sector privacy legislation, PIPEDA.

A New Era for Privacy Compliance in Canada

This means that businesses that collect any personal data of Canadians will have to conform to stricter privacy obligations or face harsh penalties.

Stricter Obligations for Businesses

These requirements include the adoption of a privacy management program, new obligations with respect to obtaining consent, the appointment of a privacy officer, timely breach notifications, etc.

Key Findings from Cisco’s 2022 Consumer Privacy Survey

Some key findings of Cisco’s 2022 Consumer Privacy survey reveal:

• 81% of consumers surveyed believe a way a business treats their data is indicative of how they are viewed as customers;
• The most important activity businesses can do to build trust with their clients is providing clear information on how their data is being used;
• 43% of consumers surveyed believe they are unable to protect their data, primarily because they can’t figure out how businesses are using them;
• 44% of consumers surveyed for whom privacy is a priority have switched providers to better protect their privacy.

Why Bilingual Privacy Documents Matter

In order to ensure that Canadian businesses are serving their clients transparently while offering a competitive advantage and continuing to build on their reputations, bilingual privacy-related documents are essential, especially in a province like Quebec, where French is the primary language.

Engaging Stakeholders Through Language

Stakeholders who receive these documents in their native language are more likely to be engaged and in turn, retain their content. For example, clear and comprehensive French and English privacy incident response programs and protocols minimize the risks of a data breach or otherwise mitigate damages.

Minimizing Risks with Comprehensive Privacy Protocols

Traductions nexus helps businesses in Canada and Quebec translate these important documents in English and tailor them to their audience.

How Traductions nexus Supports Privacy Compliance

Translating Privacy-Related Documents

Traduction nexus’ lawyers and certified translators help businesses translate to English their privacy-related documents such as:

• Privacy notices and privacy policies
• Privacy training and awareness-related documents
• Internal privacy policies for employees having access to personal data
• Data processing agreements
• HR policies
• External vendor policies
• Data retention and destruction policies
• IT and IS policies
• Incident response programs and protocols at all levels of the organization

Ensuring Legal Accuracy with Traductions nexus’ Legal Check

In addition, Traductions nexus provides the legal check option thereby assuring the contents in the source language are conforming to internationally accepted privacy standards.

Aram Kuyumjian is a certified translator and privacy lawyer. He is IAPP-certified for Canada (CIPP/C), Europe (CIPP/E) and in privacy program management (CIPM).