Canadian Privacy Law Blog

The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: Developments in privacy law and writings of a Canadian privacy lawyer, containing information related to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (aka PIPEDA) and other Canadian and international laws.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Tracking Internet miscreants

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A growing portion of my practice is working with the litigators in my firm on cases of online torts, including defamation and harassment. Th...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ryerson University looks to the cloud

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Today, I had the great pleasure of being one of the speakers at Ryerson University's broad consultation on the possibility of adopting c...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Social Media and the Courts

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In September of last year, I was honoured to be invited to give a presentation to the Canadian Centre for Court Technology as part of a pane...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Court Grants Ex Parte Order to Preserve Facebook

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Last month, one of my partners made an application before the New Brunswick Court of Queens bench for an unusual ex parte order for the pres...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Avoid ATM skimmers, use a hotel key card instead

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Bank card skimmers and scammers are a pretty resourceful bunch. While people are becoming increasingly vigilant about skimming hardware bein...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Nova Scotia review officer considers investigation of WCB over misdirected file

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Last week, the Halifax Chronicle Herald reported that the provincial Workers' Compensation Board mistakenly sent the wrong person's ...
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Personal Health Information Act for Researchers

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I was invited to give a presentation to staff and physicians at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax on the impact of the new Personal Health In...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

Investigating and Preventing Criminal Electronic Communications Act bill one step closer to (warrantless) surveillance state

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Want to know one reason why the Canadian government's proposed Bill C-52, referred to as the Investigating and Preventing Criminal Elect...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Your smartphone could be your most dangerous possession, so secure it

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After a decision out of California which found that police are able to rummage through all your portable electronics incident to arrest, muc...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

Arizona hospital fires employees for snooping on records of shooting victims

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Various media outlets are reporting that the Tucson University Medical Center has fired a number of employees for inappropriate accessing m...
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