The possibility of foreign government access to personal information has been a hurdle to international data transfers, even between countries with strong ties such as Canada and the U.S. Timothy Banks, CIPP/C, writes for Privacy Tracker about a report from BC Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham indicating there may be hope for Canada-U.S. data transfer in the form of “tokenization,” a system of de-identifying data using random tokens as stand-ins for meaningful data. While questions remain, Banks writes, “Denham’s openness to considering this method of de-identification illustrates a practical commitment on the part of Canada’s data protection authorities to revisiting the issue of de-identification, which could have broader implications for data processing and data use.” (IAPP member login required.)
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