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Privacy Awareness Week is an annual promotional campaign first initiated by Privacy Victoria (Australia) in 2001.

Privacy Awareness Week went international for the first time in 2007 and CAPAPA actively supports the theme Privacy: It's In Your Hands.

The week is an opportunity for organizations and agencies covered by privacy legislation to promote privacy awareness to their staff, customers, and to the wider community.

Know your Rights and Obligations Canadian organizations, governments, and government agencies are bound by a variety of wide-reaching privacy laws.As consumers, each of us is responsible to understand what our rights and responsibilities are under those laws.

Find out which laws apply to you

Join CAPAPA in celebrating Privacy Awareness Week

Calgary — April 28, 2010
Why does PCI compliance matter to you?
Speakers:
• Bashir Fancy, Managing Director of Corporate Solutions & Services Inc and Special Advisor – Business Risk at Grant Thornton LLP
• Frank Work, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta
• Supt. Ken Marchant, Calgary Police Service invited

Vancouver — May 4, 2010
An Update on Privacy for Organizations Subject to the Privacy Act
Speakers:
• Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• Kyle Friesen, A/Senior Counsel, Legal Advisory Section (RCMP Pacific Region) and 2010 Winter Olympics - Integrated Security Unit, Department of Justice Canada, BC Regional Office

Victoria — May 4, 2010
Current issues for FOIPOP access requests and privacy protection matters
Speaker:
• Jim Burrows, Manager of Investigations and Mediation, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC

Toronto — May 6, 2010
Speakers:
• Chantal Bernier, Assistant Privacy Commissioner of Canada
• Fazila Nurani, President, PrivaTech Consulting
• Angelique Hamilton, Senior Privacy Analyst, eHealth Ontario