As the sun sets over the week-long Paradise Papers media blitz, the sky clouded with 13-million pages of illegally-obtained privacy-breaching documents filled with implied wrongdoing, the world is left with a big question: What the hell was that all about?

Well, for one thing, we learn that it is quite acceptable to breach the privacy of Canadians and citizens of other countries, provided those citizens are rich. Canada‘s Privacy Act is a rigid piece of legislation that attempts to prevent companies, governments and individuals from disclosing private information. When Equifax Canada recently reported a cyberattack that compromised credit card and other information about 100,000 Canadians, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner swung into action: “The investigation is a priority for our office given the sensitivity of the personal information that Equifax holds.”

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