Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Are the media subject to PIPEDA?

Are the media subject to PIPEDA?: "


Broadcasting


Is there one set of privacy rules for regular businesses and one for the media? In a past case summary, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “OPC”) found that a radio station which had broadcast the name and comments of a caller who had phoned the radio station’s news tips line to relay specific details of a robbery was not a violation of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Why wasn’t this a violation?

FULL ARTICLE: http://brianbowman.ca/2009/09/16/are-the-media-subject-to-pipeda/