This week is Data Privacy Week. Data Privacy Day is celebrated each year on January 28 and has now expanded to a week of initiatives creating awareness about the importance of privacy and the protection of personal information.

To celebrate the week, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner is highlighting two joint resolutions recently signed dealing with privacy issues.

The first is ensuring youth have a right to privacy across all sectors and there should be clear limits on when and how their personal information may be collected, used or shared.

Secondly, the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner has called for Protecting Employee Privacy in the Modern Workplace. Employee monitoring has undergone substantial expansion in its use, technological capabilities and application in recent years and the adoption of digital surveillance technologies can have disproportionate impacts on employees’ privacy the office said.