PRIVACY BREACH RESPONSE TOOLKIT

Is your Breach Response Plan in Place? 

Regulations under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) that introduce mandatory breach notification and reporting obligations came into force on November 1, 2018.

PRIVATECH has assisted numerous organizations prepare for the new requirements and adopt processes for effective breach escalation and recordkeeping.

In the Fall of 2018, PRIVATECH conducted webinars on the topic of privacy breach management. These materials incorporate the Federal Privacy Commissioner's guidelines on breach reporting that were released in final form on October 29th, 2018. The following materials have been gathered into a toolkit to assist you:

• Full recording of PRIVATECH'S webinar: Privacy Breach Ready? Key Strategies for Complying with the PIPEDA Breach of Security Safeguards Regulations (conducted October 30, 2018);
• Slide presentation used for the webinars;
• Breach notification decision making flowchart; and
• Template Data Breach Response Procedure incorporating the Regulations and Commissioner guidelines (with a sample internal privacy breach report form).