{"id":160168,"date":"2025-03-27T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/opc-launches-new-tool-to-assess-if-a-privacy-breach-poses-a-real-risk-of-significant-harm\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:19:29","slug":"opc-launches-new-tool-to-assess-if-a-privacy-breach-poses-a-real-risk-of-significant-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=160168","title":{"rendered":"OPC launches new tool to assess if a privacy breach poses a real risk of significant harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<div class=\"content-subheading\">\n<p>\t\t<span class=\"icon-user\" title=\"Par\"><!--array(2) {\n  [\"name\"]=>\n  string(0) \"\"\n  [\"link\"]=>\n  string(0) \"\"\n}\n-->\u00c9lo\u00efse Gratton<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<span class=\"icon-time\" title=\"Date\"> March 26, 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (<strong>OPC<\/strong>) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.priv.gc.ca\/en\/privacy-topics\/business-privacy\/breaches-and-safeguards\/privacy-breaches-at-your-business\/rrosh-tool\/\">released today a tool<\/a> that organizations can use if they have experienced a privacy breach to assess if the breach has created a real risk of significant harm to an individual (in which case they must report the privacy breach to the OPC). This tool provides a series of questions that the organization must answer and at the end of the process, it will indicate whether a real risk of significant harm is <strong>Likely<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Unlikely.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> tool will not ask for information that identifies the organization using it, nor will it send the information entered to the OPC. The OPC website states that <\/span>the risk assessment results can be<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> downloaded and that an organization subm<\/span>itting a privacy breach report to the OPC can include the results with its submission. The OPC further cautions that \u201cThe tool\u2019s breach risk self-assessment result is only one element to consider in assessing a breach. The tool\u2019s results do not replace your own judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"right-align last-updated\"><i class=\"icon-update\"\/>This content has been updated on March 26, 2025 at 17 h 46 min.<\/p>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9lo\u00efse Gratton March 26, 2025 The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has released today a tool that organizations can use if they have experienced a privacy breach to assess if the breach has created a real risk of significant harm to an individual (in which case they must report the privacy breach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[13431,16866,24643,10851,65822,16959,13325,482,11115,30231,1447],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-160168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-assess","tag-breach","tag-harm","tag-launches","tag-opc","tag-poses","tag-privacy","tag-real","tag-risk","tag-significant","tag-tool"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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