Thursday, October 29, 2015

Supreme Court to hear important case about legal privilege and access to information/privacy laws

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This morning, the Supreme Court granted leave to appeal the Alberta Court of Appeal decision in University of Calgary v JR, 2015 ABCA 118 ....
Tuesday, October 06, 2015

EU Court of Justice invalidates "Safe Harbour" framework for EU-US personal data transfers

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The European Court of Justice has just declared that the European-American Safe Harbour framework to be invalid. The Safe Harbour Framework ...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Canadian Police Chiefs looking to resurrect warrant-less access to telecom users' data

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The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police , at their annual conference, just passed a resolution looking to resurrect the lawful access d...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Nova Scotia's Cyber-safety Act (hopefully) heading for a Charter challenge

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A case I am involved with is hopefully heading to argument on Friday in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia on whether the province's Cyber...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Privacy breach class action certified against Government of Canada for medical marijuana breach

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In a decision issued on July 27, 2015 but not yet published ( but available here as a PDF ), the Federal Court of Canada has certified a cla...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Supreme Court to hear PIPEDA case that left lender out in the cold

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The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal from the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Royal Bank of Canada v. Trang, 2014 ON...
Wednesday, July 08, 2015

Court of Appeal finds negligence and breach of confidence claims should go forward in privacy class action against the Federal Government

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The Federal Court of Appeal in Condon v Canada , 2015 FCA 159 (not yet available on CanLII but here as a Google Drive PDF) , has reversed a ...

Canadian government issues "transparency reporting guidelines"

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The Canadian federal government has released " Transparency Reporting Guidelines ", to provide companies with guidance on reportin...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Digital Privacy Act (Bill S-4) now (partially) in force

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Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, which amends PIPEDA, has mostly been proclaimed into force by royal assent. Notably, the most important...
Friday, May 01, 2015

In the absence of actual harm, privacy cases are hardly worth pursuing

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Continuing the theme of "don't bother unless you have actual losses ..." In Albayate v. Bank of Montreal, 2015 BCSC 695 , the...
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