Saturday, November 26, 2011

Ontario Commissioner Issues Significant Order on Custody or Control of University Records

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If any part of your practice involves advising universities on access to information issues, run -- don't walk -- over to Dan Michaluk...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

SCC declines to hear Alberta Privacy Commissioner's appeal

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The Supreme Court of Canada announced today that they will not hear the appeal of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta in the...

Bill C-12 and “lawful authority” under PIPEDA

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Phillipa Lawson has a very well thought out post over at Slaw on "lawful authority" under PIPEDA and the ability of businesses to ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Current issues in privacy: Social media and cloud computing

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Today, I was honoured to be asked to present to the Nova Scotia Association of Educational Administrators on current privacy issues. A very ...

What information is law enforcement looking for under "lawful access"?

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Christopher Parsons has a great and detailed blog post on the sort of information that would be open for inspection by law enforcement under...

Paper on Canadian ISP cooperation with law enforcement

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An interesting read: Updated: Business disclosure of personal information to law enforcement agencies: PIPEDA and the CNA letter of reques...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Nova Scotia Privacy Review officer reviews workers' comp board

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Until recently, the "Review Officer" appointed under Nova Scotia's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act only h...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Privacy Commissioner of Canada releases annual report on public sector privacy law

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Jennifer Stoddart has just tabled her annual report to Parliament on the Privacy Act, Canada's federal public sector privacy law: Annua...
Monday, November 14, 2011

Ontario Court: Information about landlords not Personal Information

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Dan Michaluk has a summary of a very recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice Case which held that information about landlords in the capaci...
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Cloud computing session at Privacy and Information Security Congress 2011

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I'm going to be on a panel discussion at the Reboot conference "Privacy and Information Security Congress 2011" on November 28...