AVOIDING UNINTENTIONAL DATA SHARING

    If you’re concerned about companies learning too much about you, you might want to consider ditching your credit and debit cards — and your phone, too.
    Ann Cavoukian, Ontario’s former Information and Privacy Commissioner and current head of the Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University in Toronto. OPC has plenty of advice for privacy-conscious Canadians, but a lot of it involves reading the fine print and asking pointed questions.
    But people shouldn’t have to wade through pages of legalese to figure out what personal data they’re giving up and how it’s going to be used, said Cavoukian.

Instead of putting it on customers to find the opt-out option, lawmakers should make privacy the default setting, she added.