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Privacy Commissioner Releases Videogame Guidance

By Bob Tarantino
November 6, 2012
  • Video Games
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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released a Guidance Document for videogames, with particular relevance to online games which require users to provide personal information as a condition of accessing the game.  The OPC has made available both html and .pdf versions of the Guidance Document.

The Guidance Document consists of a series of questions and answers (primarily aimed at gamers) supplemented with information AccessPrivacy will be discussing the Guidance Document on their November 21, 2012 monthly call – details here.

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About Bob Tarantino

Bob Tarantino is Counsel at Dentons Canada LLP and focuses his practice on the interface between the entertainment industries and intellectual property law, with an emphasis on film and television production, financing, licensing, distribution, and IP acquisition and protection. His clients range from artists and independent producers to Canadian distributors and foreign studios and financiers at every stage of the creative process, from development to delivery and exploitation.

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