2008 Annual Report to Parliament on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

This week, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada published her annual report to Parliament on the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the country's private sector privacy law.

The report focuses a lot on privacy issues relating to the use of social networking technologies such as instant messaging and Facebook.

It also looks at privacy complaint investigations in the last year, emerging technology issues and the Commissioner’s efforts to encourage the development of international privacy standards.