Thursday, April 25, 2019

My Atlantic Security Conference 2019 Presentation: The New Privacy and Cybersecurity Legal Risk Landscape (or how to play nicely with lawyers)

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I was invited back this year to the Atlantic Security Conference as a speaker. It's a great event and shows that Halifax really punches ...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Privacy Commissioner proposes new guidance on crossborder transfers, requiring consent for all outsourcing

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In seeking to revise crossborder dataflows, the OPC’s position would require consent for all transfers of personal information for processin...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Ontario court refuses to order accused to unlock his smartphone

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Not sure how I missed this one when it came out in January ... The Ontario Court of Justice has refused to order an accused to unlock his ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Privacy for start-ups and growing businesses

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I was invited with my colleague Sarah Anderson Dykema to present on privacy by design for start-ups at Volta Labs. Volta is Eastern Canada...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Supreme Court of Canada lays down a very nuanced, contextual understanding of "expectation of privacy"

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Today the Supreme Court of Canada issued a very important privacy decision in R v Jarvis . I say it’s important for a number of reasons. Fir...
Saturday, December 08, 2018

Presentation: Obtaining digital evidence

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This week, I was pleased to be asked to be on a panel with Daniela Bassan on digital evidence for the Canadian Bar Association - Nova Scoti...
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Canadian Privacy Commissioner calls for a new privacy law

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Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Daniel Therrien, has today released a letter written to Navdeep Singh Bains, the Minister of Innovation, Scie...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Presentation: Privacy 101 for Psychologists

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I was invited to present at an professional development event by the Association of Psychologists of Nova Scotia, on the topic of Privacy 10...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

The value of legal privilege: Your diligent privacy consultant may become your worst enemy

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A diligent privacy consultant will do a thorough privacy impact assessment, a threat risk assessment or a gap analysis. They'll take a t...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

AtlSecCon Presentation: Canada's new data breach notification regime

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I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to the Atlantic Security Conference this afternoon on Canada's new data breach notification...