Privacy program consulting for Law 25, PIPEDA and GDPR

It follows the people whose information you hold, so a company anywhere in Canada that serves customers in Quebec is inside Law 25, and one with users in Europe is inside the GDPR. PIPEDA applies federally to commercial activity, and several provinces have their own statutes for health information. The scoping read settles which of these reach you and which do not, in writing, so the program is built once against the real set. Truvo is not a law firm and this is not legal advice. Where an obligation turns on a genuinely contested reading, the assessment says so and names it for your counsel instead of guessing.

More than most teams expect on the security half, and less than they expect on the rest. Access control, encryption, logging, vendor management and incident response already produce most of the safeguard evidence a privacy regulator would look for, filed under a control number instead of a section number. What those frameworks do not produce is the inventory of what personal information you hold and why, the lawful basis or consent record behind each use, retention rules that are enforced instead of stated, and the workflow for answering an individual who asks for their data. The gap analysis marks which rows are done and which are the real work.

No, and the two are worth keeping apart. Law 25 requires that the role be designated, defaulting to the person with the highest authority unless it is delegated in writing, and PIPEDA requires an accountable individual as well. That is a standing role someone has to hold. This service is the assessment work: finding out where you stand and what has to change. If the outcome is that no one in the company can hold the role, Truvo offers it separately as an ongoing engagement.

It is part of it, and under Law 25 section 3.3 it is mandatory for any project that acquires, develops or overhauls a system handling personal information, with the privacy officer involved from the start. Truvo runs those assessments as part of the engagement and leaves behind the register that shows the process exists, since a single completed document does not demonstrate one. Teams that want to run the first one themselves can start from the template Truvo publishes, which includes the crosswalk from each safeguard to the SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls already covering it.

No. The inventory and the data flow mapping are built from your systems, your documentation and interviews with the people who operate them, working inside your environment. Truvo does not take custody of, store, or host your production data or the personal information inside it in order to assess how it is handled. On an engagement about privacy that answer matters more than usual, and it is one your own customers are increasingly asking you for in vendor review.