Bill C-11, the now defunct privacy bill which was set to replace the current Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), introduced various concepts to Canadian law in an effort to “modernize” the rules. One of the concepts introduced in Bill C-11 was related to de-identified information.
In this blog we outline what “de-identification” means in law and practice, how it differs from anonymization, and how it may contribute to effective data management practices. Read here.