Wither ‘Big Brother’? B.C. Privacy Commissioner Reins-in Government of...
In keeping with her stance on overly-invasive employee background checks, British Columbia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her findings and recommendations with...
View ArticleSex, E-mail & Privacy – You Have Privacy Rights For As Long As No One Is...
On November 15, 2012, the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference (SOGIC) of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) held a seminar on “Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity: Managing Personal...
View ArticleSocial Media & Employees: When Every Little Thing Is Searchable
The scope of an employer’s right to discipline and terminate an employee for indiscreet or inappropriate remarks in social media is far from settled. Given that an employee’s social media activities...
View ArticleSupreme Court of Canada to Police: Get a Warrant to Search Computers and...
Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a unanimous decision in R. v. Vu recognizing important privacy interests in information stored in a computer or mobile phone. The court held that specific,...
View ArticleAllowing Ontario’s Privacy Tort to Develop in the Health Information Sphere —...
In the 1980’s the Supreme Court of Canada pre-emptively ended the development of a common law tort of discrimination. The case, Seneca College v. Bhadauria, stands out as one of the lost opportunities...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Justice declares Data Retention Directive invalid
The Data Retention Directive requires public electronic communications providers to retain certain communications data (essentially traffic data) to help in the fight against serious crime. It applies...
View ArticleCanada’s Proposed Secure Air Travel Act
This is the second in a series of posts on Bill C-51, known as Canada’s Anti-terrorism Act, 2015. In my last post, I examined Part 1 of the Act, which would, if passed, enact the Security of Canada...
View ArticleUS Officially Blames Russia For DNC Hack
The United States (US) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued a joint statement on Friday, October 7, 2016, publicly stating for the...
View ArticleThe Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law
Consumer privacy rights in California are well established. The California Constitution expressly grants California citizens a right to privacy. And existing California law provides for the...
View ArticleNIST Announces Privacy Framework Effort
On September 4, 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the start of a collaborative project to develop a voluntary privacy framework to...
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