Thursday, February 26, 2015

The disaster of the Nova Scotia cyberbullying law; it's time to go back to the drawing board

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I often represent victims of true cyberbullying, including adults whose lives have been turned upside down by malicious online actors, so I ...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Pre-installed adware may be kosher under Canadian anti-spyware provisions of CASL

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The Next Web is reporting that Lenovo has been shipping consumer laptops pre-equipped with adware (see: Lenovo Caught Installing Adware On N...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Ontario health privacy law doesn't preclude class actions for intrusion upon seclusion claims

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The Ontario Court of Appeal in Hopkins v. Kay, 2015 ONCA 112 (CanLII) has just ruled that the Personal Health Information Protection Act (P...
Friday, February 13, 2015

To combat fraud, you want Visa to track your smartphone

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A couple of years ago, I got into my office, sat down at my desk and the phone rang. It was my bank. The conversation went something like th...
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Thursday, February 05, 2015

Supreme Court of Canada to hear case involving foreign spying and misconduct by government lawyers

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The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal in the case of Re X . That was an interesting cas...
Wednesday, February 04, 2015

Presentation: Cyber-bullying, the law and the courts (and freedom of expression)

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I was invited to speak to journalism students at the University of King's College about Cyber-bullying, the law, freedom of expression a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Canada's digital spy agency tracking your online downloads

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The CBC ( CSE tracks millions of downloads daily: Snowden documents - Canada - CBC News ) and the Intercept ( Canada Casts Global Surveillan...

Presentation on the new software installation rules in Canada's Anti-spam Law

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I was pleased to deliver an online Hangout On Air about CASL's new software installation rules on behalf of both Digital Nova Scotia and...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Audio of interview with Macleans Magazine about SCC Fearon cell phone privacy decision

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Last week, I was interviewed by Cormac MacSweeney for Macleans Magazine about the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in R v Fearon. Lis...
Monday, December 08, 2014

Former federal privacy commissioner Bruce Phillips has died at 84

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Bruce Phillips, who served as Canada's Privacy Commissioner from 1991 to 2000 has died at age 84. See: Former journalist and federal pri...