Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada
This project will characterize the different metaverse models available to Canadians, as well as those that may emerge over the next few years; analyze the privacy policies, user contracts and informa...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada
According to the World Economic Forum, 70% of seniors are now online. Many Canadian seniors track their medical conditions with remote monitoring health devices. Internet of Things (IoT) devices that...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada
The aim of this project is to examine, through a comprehensive and systematic technical investigation, the security and privacy risks associated with parental control solutions that are commonly used...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada
This project aims to assess the ability of Canadian youth to identify and respond to privacy dark patterns on social media.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2024-2025
Canada
In this project, researchers seek to understand the privacy implications of generative AI technologies in order to inform the application of current and proposed Canadian privacy legislation and priva...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada
In this project, Option consommateurs will conduct research on consumers and AI. Researchers will begin by documenting the current and future uses of AI by the largest companies offering online servic...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada
The use of commercial virtual care services in Canada has exploded with the COVID-19 pandemic, improving access and transforming care, as well as raising concerns about the privacy and security of per...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada
This research project will give researchers the opportunity to contribute to current philosophical thinking on privacy protection in Canada through a conceptual analysis of the right to privacy and et...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada
In the age of Big Data, recent technologies and AI allow for the inference of private attributes from a quantity of data that is innocuous when viewed in isolation, but which, when cross-referenced wi...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2020-2021
Canada
This project will fill-in knowledge gaps on the impact of AI on children’s privacy rights for those developing standards, policies, and guidance related to children’s privacy.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
OPC Contributions Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada
This research project seeks to examine the privacy protection practices of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada
Public Perspectives on Facial Recognition Technology: Attitudes, Preferences, Hopes, and Concerns
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contribution Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada
Extended reality (“XR”) technologies – which include augmented, mixed, and virtual reality – promise to revolutionize many aspects of our lives. Yet, the nature of these technologies’ data collection...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada
The researchers behind this project propose that the model of “surveillance capitalism” is already out of date. Sparked partly by the demands of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada
Data synthesis is rapidly emerging as a practical privacy enhancing technology (PET) for sharing data for secondary purposes. However, the strengths and weaknesses of this emerging technology are not...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2017-2018
Canada
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada
Consent and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada
This proposed project aims to develop a data governance framework for health synthetic data, ethical guidelines for research involving health synthetic data,
recommended policy changes, and a cost im...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2022-2023
Canada
Research project
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2026-2027
Canada
This project seeks to unpack the privacy implications of “rootkit-style” surveillance in “anti-cheat” software by examining: (1) the technical reality of kernel-level access versus the vague disclosur...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2021-2022
Canada
Canadian companies manage the digital identity of many people, such as clients and staff, which poses challenges in terms of personal information protection and legal compliance, in a context of de f...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2023-2024
Canada
The objective of this project is to benchmark differential privacy against existing
guidance in order to better understand the opportunities to leverage this emerging
technique, and emerging technol...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada
BC FIPA will organize and host a three-day design jam that will bring experts from academia and industry together with advocates and activists, to produce cutting-edge solutions to the problem of conn...
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2017-2018
Canada
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada
Contributions Program
FY 2019-2020
Canada
Option consommateurs will develop in both English and French two one-minute videos that will demonstrate to parents the potential impact on their children of sharing their images and personal informat...