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Read the blog →PIPEDA is the default privacy law for most Canadian startups. It governs how you handle personal information in commercial activity across the country and in cross-border and inter-provincial data flows.
See also the PIPEDA overview.
Where PIPEDA fits into a Canadian company’s compliance picture, and where Canadian regulators change the calculus.
Most Canadian startups fall under PIPEDA for commercial handling of personal information from day one.
Breaches posing a real risk of significant harm must be reported to the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals.
If you touch Quebec residents data, Quebec Law 25 applies on top of, or instead of, PIPEDA for that activity.
Selling into the US adds state privacy laws such as California on top of PIPEDA. A Canadian startup usually maps PIPEDA first, then layers US-state and GDPR requirements onto the same data inventory.
Most Canadian startups run PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 together, and add GDPR if they serve the EU: one data map, three regimes.
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 45 obligations of PIPEDA, 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.
Most do, for personal information handled in commercial activity, unless a substantially similar provincial law applies. Quebec, BC, and Alberta have their own private-sector laws.
Most Canadian startups run PIPEDA and Quebec Law 25 together, and add GDPR if they serve the EU: one data map, three regimes.
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 PIPEDA engagements end to end.
Book a free discovery call. We will tell you whether PIPEDA fits, what it would take, and roughly what it would cost.
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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.