Wednesday, October 07, 2020

Presentation: Little Brother - Surveillance Technology and Privacy Law

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I had the pleasure of speaking at the University of New Brunswick Law School's weekly speaker hour, on the topic of non-police use of su...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Privacy best practices in a pandemic public health emergency

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Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, privacy questions have been in the headlines. International media reported stories from Asia ...
Monday, February 17, 2020

Ontario court adopts the "false light publicity" privacy tort

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Regular readers of this (irregular) blog will recall the milestone case of Jones v Tsige , in which the Ontario Court of Appeal imported int...
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Privacy Commissioner again upends the consensus on transfers for processing in Aggregate IQ investigation

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You may recall earlier this year when the Canadian Privacy Commissioner completely revised the previous consensus by concluding that a ...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Presentation: Access to Government Information

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On Friday, November 23, 2019, I had the pleasure of presenting on the topic of access to government information with Janet Curry of the Work...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Presentation: Surveillance tech and privacy laws

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I was honoured to be asked to give a breakfast presentation to the Canadian Security Association Atlantic Chapter on surveillance and secur...
Monday, October 14, 2019

What a CLOUD Act agreement will look like for Canada

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The United States Department of Justice and the United Kingdom Home Office have announced that the two countries have signed a bilateral ag...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

Another privacy class action dismissed due to lack of compensable damages

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Privacy class actions seem to be having a bit of a rough time as of late. “The need to change a password at a higher frequency cannot give...
Friday, May 10, 2019

Presentation: What’s new in cross-border digital evidence gathering for criminal investigations?

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I was invited to present at the High Technology Crime Investigation Association's first annual Canadian Cyber Summit . I spoke about r...
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 ...