Canadian Anonymization Network

The Canadian Anonymization Network (“CANON”) is a network comprised of large-scale data custodians from across the private, public and health sectors, whose primary purpose is to promote the use of privacy-enhancing technologies (including de-identification, anonymization, secure computing, and synthetic data) to enable responsible data sharing, respecting privacy while allowing for the leveraging of data for economic and socially-beneficial purposes. Co-founded by AccessPrivacy, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Symcor and Telus, CANON has quickly grown to include some of the largest data custodians from private, public and health institutions across the country. CANON is a registered not-for-profit corporation.