What laws limit the right of private individuals and organizations to engage in public video surveillance?
As with government surveillance, private sector collection, use and disclosure of personal information about identifiable individuals is governed by generic privacy legislation. This means, in BC and Alberta, their respective Personal Information and Privacy Acts (PIPA); in Quebec, the Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels dans le secteur privé; and, in the rest of Canada, the Federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). PIPEDA also applies to federally-regulated private sector bodies, such as banks and airlines. These statutes feature, broadly-speaking, similar principles to the public-sector legislation, but tend to have a narrower set of exceptions to the rule of consent. It is worth noting that they do not feature the requirement that information must be “recorded” in order to qualify as “personal information”. Logically, then, PIPEDA and the related provincial statutes could also apply to video surveillance systems which do not featu
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