Canadian PIPEDA
What is Canadian PIPEDA?
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Federal Canadian private-sector privacy law.. It comprises 31 controls organised across 4 domains, and applies in Canada.
How Canadian PIPEDA maps to other frameworks
All 31 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 4 domains Canadian PIPEDA groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Canadian PIPEDA
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Canadian PIPEDA. The number is how many Canadian PIPEDA controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Implementation guides for frameworks that overlap Canadian PIPEDA
Where Canadian PIPEDA overlaps with the standards you already hold
What Canadian PIPEDA means in your sector
What Canadian PIPEDA means for your job
Questions people ask about Canadian PIPEDA
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Query Canadian PIPEDA programmatically
Canadian PIPEDA, its 31 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Canadian PIPEDA API reference and MCP config →What Canadian PIPEDA requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Canadian PIPEDA control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- PIPEDA-10-1 Report of Breach to the Commissioner
- PIPEDA-10-1-IND Notification of Breach to Individuals
- PIPEDA-10-3 Records of Breaches
- PIPEDA-4-1 Principle 1 - Accountability
- PIPEDA-4-1-3 Accountability for Transfers to Third Parties
- PIPEDA-4-1-4 Policies and Practices (Privacy Management Program)
- PIPEDA-4-10 Principle 10 - Challenging Compliance
- PIPEDA-4-2 Principle 2 - Identifying Purposes
- PIPEDA-4-2-4 New Purpose Requires New Consent
- PIPEDA-4-3 Principle 3 - Consent
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