Monday, January 02, 2006

CIPPIC challenges Privacy Commissioner's denial of jurisdiction to investigate

As reported here some time ago, the Canadian Privacy Commissioner recently declined to investigate a US-based data broker on the basis of lack of jurisdiction (The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Office of the Privacy Commissioner responds to complaint against US data-broker: No jurisdiction to investigate outside of Canada). Now, CIPPIC has announced it filed an application in the Federal Court on December 15, 2005 for judicial review of that decision. Should be interesting ...

See: CIPPIC News - CIPPIC.

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