Employee privacy in workplace: Changes to PIPEDA guidelines

By Barbara Green (September 25, 2023, 10:56 AM EDT) -- On May 29, 2023, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) updated its guidance concerning privacy in the workplace and the application of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). This was the first time that OPC updated its guidance, Privacy in the Workplace, in 19 years. Just some of the technological trends that now impact the workplace: big data, the gig economy, spam, corporate espionage, bad actors who perpetrate malware and ransomware attacks and working-from-home (WFH)....