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Read the blog →GDPR reaches Canadian startups whenever they serve or monitor people in the EU or EEA. Being based in Canada offers no exemption: if EU residents use your product, GDPR can apply.
See also the GDPR overview.
Where GDPR fits into a Canadian company’s compliance picture, and where Canadian regulators change the calculus.
Offering your product to people in the EU or EEA brings you into GDPR scope regardless of where you are based.
GDPR lawful-basis, DPIA, and 72-hour breach rules go beyond PIPEDA, so Canadian firms usually align up.
Canada commercial privacy regime has partial EU adequacy status, but that does not remove your direct GDPR obligations as a controller or processor.
A Canadian startup selling globally often faces GDPR in the EU, state privacy laws in the US, and Canadian law at once. Building one privacy program to the strictest standard, usually GDPR, is the efficient path.
Run GDPR alongside PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 in a single privacy program so EU, federal-Canada, and Quebec obligations are handled from one data map.
traztech is a Toronto (Bay St) security and compliance firm, led by a published security researcher, delivering to startups across Canada and the US.
Reading about a framework only gets you so far. Our free compliance workspace takes you through all 60 obligations of GDPR, one at a time, each explained in plain English with what an auditor will want to see, plus somewhere to attach the evidence and a readiness score that moves as you close gaps. No credit card, no trial clock, nothing locked.
The workspace is free and stays free. TrazTech makes money when someone wants help closing the gaps it finds, not from the tool.
The control library, the evidence, the policies and the readiness score all have to live somewhere. That is normally quoted as an annual subscription. Ours is free, and it is the same workspace we run engagements in.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.
Yes, if you offer goods or services to, or monitor, people in the EU or EEA. Being based in Canada does not exempt you.
Run GDPR alongside PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 in a single privacy program so EU, federal-Canada, and Quebec obligations are handled from one data map.
Yes. traztech is a Toronto-based security and compliance consultancy serving startups across Canada and the US, led by a published security researcher. We run GDPR engagements end to end.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether GDPR fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.
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Track record
We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation with zero exceptions.
The platform stayed in production throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.