Sunday, April 26, 2015

Arbitrator dismisses privacy breach grievance based on actions of a snooping employee via @danmichaluk http://t.co/Ljol99od8n

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Arbitrator dismisses privacy breach grievance based on actions of a snooping employee via @danmichaluk http://t.co/Ljol99od8n — David T.S...
Tuesday, April 07, 2015

Why privilege matters in privacy advice

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After a data breach, a company can easily find that the due diligence it exercised to avoid the breach in the first place can readily be tur...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Cyberbullying for family law practitioners (*not intended to be a how-to guide)

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I was invited to speak with the Canadian Bar Association's Nova Scotia Family Law Section on cyberbullying law for family law practition...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

In Bill C-51, you can be ORDERED to help CSIS violate the Charter

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Oh, there are so many things wrong with Bill C-51 , the government's proposed Anti-Terrorism Act, 2015. But one aspect that I find parti...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Privacy Commissioner: Health Canada violated privacy laws by disclosing personal health information of over 40,000 Canadians

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A press release issued today by my firm and the other firms listed below, who are representing more than 40,000 Canadians affected by a Heal...
Monday, March 09, 2015

Canadian "revenge porn" and lawful access law is now in effect

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Bill C-13, entitled the "Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act", is now in effect. It received royal assent on December 9, 20...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Quebec man charged with obstruction for not giving up smartphone password to customs officer

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The CBC ( Quebec resident Alain Philippon to fight charge for not giving up phone password at airport and the Halifax Chronicle Herald ( Qu...

CRTC issues first CASL penalty: $1.1 million levied against Compu-Finder

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The CRTC has levied its first penalty under Canada's Anti-spam Law (CASL): a whopping $1.1 million against Compu-Finder for sending comm...
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...