Recent Updates:
- New! Upcoming Webinar, October 22: “Developing Guidelines for Synthetic Data Generation: Lessons from Singapore“. For more information and to register, visit our Eventbrite page.
- 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.
- CANON Bill C-27 submission to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, “Proposed amendments to de-identification and anonymization provisions in the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 (Bill C-27)“, December 7, 2022 [PDF].
- Webinar: “Toward a Canadian De-identification Framework: Lessons from Singapore”, July 2022. See our Events Page for more information.
- Publication in IEEE Security & Privacy, Jan-Feb 2022.
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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