Governance
PIPEDA
PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act) is Canada's federal private-sector privacy law. AI deployments handling personal information of Canadians must satisfy PIPEDA's consent, purpose, and accountability principles, and — for cross-border transfers — disclose foreign processing in the privacy policy. Provincial laws (Quebec Law 25, Alberta PIPA, BC PIPA) add stricter requirements in their jurisdictions.
PIPEDA in practice
For an AI project, PIPEDA questions usually come down to four: was the personal information collected for a purpose that covers this use, is the vendor bound by contract to protect it, does the privacy notice mention processing outside Canada, and who is accountable for the system. Quebec organizations also complete a privacy impact assessment under Law 25 before personal information is communicated outside the province. Remolda checks each use case against these rules in AI compliance work.
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