B
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65%
65% -- share of sites making privacy protective option harder to find for Canadian websites and apps (2024)
65% of examined Canadian websites and apps made the privacy-protective option harder to find than the data-sharing one.
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Value
65%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2024
Entity
Sample Size
145
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada / Global Privacy Enforcement Network
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Tier B
https://kukie.io/blog/pipeda-cookie-consent-canadian-websites ↗
Source Article
PIPEDA Cookie Consent: Do Canadian Websites Need a Banner? | Kukie.io
Canada has no cookie-specific law. There is no equivalent of the EU's ePrivacy Directive spelling out when a website may or may not drop a tracking pixel onto a visitor's device. What Canada does have is PIPEDA - the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act - a broad, principles-…
Original Research
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada / Global Privacy Enforcement Network
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Methodology
OPC participation in GPEN annual privacy sweep of 145 Canadian websites and apps
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Industrymarketing
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Canadian websites and apps: 65% share of sites making privacy protective option harder to find. Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada / Global Privacy Enforcement Network (2024). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gpen-sweep-canada-privacy-option-hidden-2024
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gpen-sweep-canada-privacy-option-hidden-2024" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>65%</strong> -- share of sites making privacy protective option harder to find for Canadian websites and apps<br><small>Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada / Global Privacy Enforcement Network (2024) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/gpen-sweep-canada-privacy-option-hidden-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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