Recent Updates:
- New! CANON Submission: Comments on the Draft De-Identification Fact Sheets issued by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (“IPC”), March 21, 2025 [PDF].
- Recording available for CANON’s Consultation Session on Draft De-identification Guidance Issued by the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario held on December 18, 2024. For more information, visit our Events page.
- Practical De-identification Methods in-person course offering, April 17, 2025 in Toronto (now sold out). Visit our Education and Training page for more details.
- Audio recording is available for Unlocking the Future of AI in Healthcare: The Role of De-Identification, co-hosted by CANON and AccessPrivacy on January 22. For more information, visit our Events page.
- Webinar Recording: “Developing Guidelines for Synthetic Data Generation: Lessons from Singapore“. See our Events Page to access the webinar materials.
- CANON Submission to the Quebec Secrétariat à la réforme des institutions démocratiques, à l’accès à l’information et à la laïcité: “Comments in response to the Québec government’s consultation on the draft Regulation respecting the anonymization of personal information”, February 5, 2024 [English PDF] [French PDF]
- Webinar recording: “Legislative Roundtable: Draft Regulation on the anonymization of personal information in Quebec“. See our Events page for more details.
- Updated CANON Bill C-27 Working Group document: “Proposed amendments to de-identification and anonymization provisions in the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 (Bill C-27)“, May 24, 2023 [PDF]
- Webinar Recording: “Legislative Reform Roundtable: The impact of the ‘anonymized’ and ‘de-identified’ data provisions within Bill C-27“. See our Events Page to access the webinar materials.
The Canadian Anonymization Network (“CANON”) is a network comprised of large-scale data custodians from across the private, public and health sectors, whose primary purpose is to promote anonymization as a privacy-respectful means of leveraging data for economic and socially-beneficial purposes.
Co-founded by AccessPrivacy, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Symcor and Telus, CANON has quickly grown to include some of the largest data custodians from private, public and health institutions across the country.
CANON is a registered not-for-profit corporation.
Learn about our objectives, membership, current activities and events.
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