Privacy Commissioner’s Public Health case provides rules for anonymizing data

By David Young (August 4, 2023, 2:11 PM EDT) -- In the report of its investigation into the Public Health Agency of Canada’s (PHAC) collection and use of mobile location data during the COVID-19 pandemic, released at the end of May, the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) provides important guidance for organizations seeking to generate non-personal data about individuals anonymized so that it can be analyzed without reference to existing privacy laws....