{"id":224759,"date":"2026-03-17T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes-personal-information\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:10:14","slug":"privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes-personal-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes-personal-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy commissioner says WADA agrees to limit use of athletes\u2019 personal information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/article-privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes\/\">Privacy commissioner says WADA agrees to limit use of athletes\u2019 personal information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/article-privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes\/\">https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/article-privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-17 17:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theglobeandmail.com\">www.theglobeandmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"u-visually-hidden\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\"><span class=\"caption text-gmr-4\">Privacy commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne waits to appear before the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security in Ottawa, this past November.<\/span><span class=\"credit text-gmr-5\">Adrian Wyld\/The Canadian Press<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The World Anti-Doping Agency has agreed to limit the use of athletes\u2019 highly sensitive personal information, Canada\u2019s privacy commissioner\u2019s office said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In a statement, the office said WADA has committed to implementing measures to help ensure that international sport federations and other anti-doping organizations do not use information collected from athletes that is under agency control for purposes other than those related to anti-doping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cThe World Anti-Doping Agency is entrusted with safeguarding the highly sensitive personal information of thousands of athletes from around the globe,\u201d said privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">\u201cI welcome WADA\u2019s commitment to take steps to help ensure that this information is only used for the purposes for which it was collected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The commitments came after the November 2024 launch of an investigation by the privacy commissioner into a complaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The complainant alleged that personal information disclosed by WADA to international sporting federations was being used to assess athletes\u2019 sex-based eligibility without their knowledge or consent, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">In a compliance agreement, WADA, which is based in Montreal, committed to implementing several remedial measures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/article-privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy commissioner says WADA agrees to limit use of athletes\u2019 personal information https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/article-privacy-commissioner-says-wada-agrees-to-limit-use-of-athletes\/ Publish 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