LAW 529 Chapter 10: Chapter #10- Privacy Inside and Outside the Workplace.docx
Document Summary
Chapter #10: privacy inside and outside the workplace. As federal legislation, personal information protection and electronic documents act (pipeda) does not directly affect personal employee information held by provincially regulated ers in ontario* Pipeda applies to all federally regulated orgs and affects how they collect, use disclose and retain personal information concerning their ees, customers, patients and suppliers. Pipeda also applies to all personal information collected, used, disclosed in provincially regulated orgs in the course of commercial activities unless the province in which the org are situated has implemented substantially similar legislation. Commercial activities refer to common commercial transactions and include selling, bartering, or leasing donor, membership, or other fundraising lists. The reason that pipeda applies to personal information collected in the commercial but not the employment, context in provincially regulated orgs relates to the division of power under canada s constitution. Ontario has not yet passed comparable privacy legislation except in the area of personal health information.