Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Government demands telco customer data more than a MILLION times per year

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Paul McLeod of the Halifax Chronicle Herald and Alex Boutilier of the Toronto Star have both reported on a dramatic revelation made by Int...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Presentation on Canada's new Anti-Spam law

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For the lawyers who read this blog, this topic may be getting tired but I'm regularly confronted by business folks who have heard very l...

Data location doesn't matter: US Federal Judge

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Just posted to the Canadian Cloud Law Blog: Canadian Cloud Law Blog: Data location doesn't matter: US Federal Judge : In a decision t...
Friday, April 25, 2014

Documents related to the loss of the hard drive from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada

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Readers of this blog may be interested to see the following documents related to the recent loss of a hard drive which occurred while the st...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Supreme Court upholds Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner's order to disclose anonymised sex offender information

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The Supreme Court has just issued its decision in the case of Ontario (Community Safety and Correctional Services) v. Ontario (Information a...

Privacy Commissioner loses hard-drive with unencrypted personal information about 800 employees

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Mark Goldberg over at Telecom Trends is blogging about an article in the print edition of the Toronto Star ( Did Privacy Commissioner lose ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Cyberbullying legislation and freedom of expression

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I was invited to lead a discussion at the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Public Affairs on Nova Scotia's cyberbullying legislation and ...
Monday, April 14, 2014

Sensitive mental health info goes into police databases, shared with US government

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The Information and Privacy Commissioner has released her investigation report to allegations that Ontario police are routinely inputting se...
Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Updates to Canadian federal privacy law tabled in the Senate

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As expected, the government has tabled amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, but this time in the ...
Friday, April 04, 2014

PIPEDA amendments coming next week to a Parliament near you

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In a speech at the Digital Canada 150 Launch, Industry Minister James Moore hinted very strongly that amendments to Canada's private sec...