
Canada's Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, who was re-appointed last month for a second, three-year term, says the Personal Information Protection of Electronic Documents Act is up for review this year and she's increasingly concerned that Canadian privacy legislation in the private sector is lagging behind developments in other democratic countries. She says she has a lot of work to do.

Canada's Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, who was re-appointed last month for a second, three-year term, says the Personal Information Protection of Electronic Documents Act is up for review this year and she's increasingly concerned that Canadian privacy legislation in the private sector is lagging behind developments in other democratic countries. She says she has a lot of work to do.