Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, communication of computerized personal information in a structured format
CQLR c P-39.1, s. 27, third paragraph
In force since .
A data subject rights rule binding private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Data subject rights
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- At the applicant’s request, communicate computerized personal information you collected from the applicant, and did not create or infer from other personal information about them, in a structured, commonly used technological format, unless doing so raises serious practical difficulties (s. 27).
- At the applicant’s request, also communicate that information to any person or body authorized by law to collect it (s. 27).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What record it asks for
Logging duty
The third paragraph of section 27 requires computerized personal information collected from the applicant to be communicated in a structured, commonly used format on request. It names no log, register or record of requests, sets no period, and says nobody may demand a record, so no logging duty is found.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Unless doing so raises serious practical difficulties, computerized personal information collected from the applicant, and not created or inferred using personal information concerning him, must, at his request, be communicated to him in a structured, commonly used technological format. The information must also be communicated, at the applicant’s request, to any person or body authorized by law to collect such information.
Section 120 of the Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information enacts the third paragraph of section 27 with effect from .
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app processes personal data.
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