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Under legislation being introduced today in Canada, firms that violate privacy could face fines and other costs. It would also give the privacy commissioner "the ability to force an organization to comply and to order a company to stop collecting data or using personal information." And it would include a Canadian version of  the 'right to be forgotten'. Michael Geist calles it Canada's GDPR Moment (he also has the most detailed coverage of the legislation). More from the Financial Post, Ottawa Matters.

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