PIPEDA

Question 1

PIPEDA

Answer 1

• federal personal information protection electronic documents act
• sets out rules of collection use and discolsure of personal info ny fed and prov organizations in both public and private sectors
• relevents provisions of the act are limited to information collected used and discolsed in the course of commercial activity

Question 2

commercial activity

Answer 2

• any transaction, act or conduct that is of a commercial character including selling, bartering or leasing of donor membership or other fundraising lists
• unlikely it will apply to HC professionals and other frontline health counselling and care services

Question 3

When can PIPEDA be decreased

Answer 3

when it is replaced by comparable legislation in a province
when fed government is satisfied that a legislation is substantial
- Quebec, AB, BC, NB, and NWFLD

Question 4

What act can displace PIPEDA

Answer 4

• PHIPA (provincial) cause it is similar