Canadian, U.S. Firms Worlds Apart On Privacy

"However, they rarely see compliance as the single goal or mission of privacy management (and) are more likely to hold the view or belief that their role is inextricably tied to information ethics rather than obedience to the law."

The study, based on in-depth interviews with 36 large companies, equally divided between Canada and the United States and spanning a number of industries, was conducted by The Ponemon Institute, a Tucson, Ariz.-based privacy think tank. Many of the Canadian participants were subsidiaries of U.S. parent companies.

"When we decided to do this study I thought there would be some differences, but I didn't realize the differences would be as stark," said Larry Ponemon, chairman of The Ponemon Institute and an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

U.S., Canadian firms worlds apart on privacy

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