Thursday, December 17, 2015

Nova Scotia's cyberbullying law declared to be unconstitutional and a "colossal failure"

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Full disclosure: I was counsel to the applicant respondent in this case. (The party seeking to have the order set aside and to have the st...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Privacy Commissioner tables annual report on privacy in the federal government

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The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has just tabled his Annual Report on the Privacy Act to Parliament for 2014-2015. The Privacy Act regulat...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Once again, the RCMP calls for warrantless access to your online info. Once again, the RCMP is wrong

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The CBC and the Canadian Press are reporting on comments made by RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson calling for warrantless access to internet se...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Presentation: Use of drones in journalism & media

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I had the great pleasure of speaking at the annual conference of the Canadian Media Lawyers Association 's annual meeting in Toronto on ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Let's all avoid technopanic in the call for additional privacy regulation for drones

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Full disclosure : I'm not a bystander to this discussion. I'm an avid drone user, having purchased a training drone and then DJI Pha...

Presentation: Privacy and drones in Canada - the current state of the law

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I had the pleasure of presenting at the Unmanned Systems 2015 conference this week, on the topic of privacy and drones (or unmanned aerial ...
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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