Friday, December 31, 2021

Video: The Privacy Landscape in Canada

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This blog has been a little quiet, as most of my public-facing energy has been spent on Twitter . I've decided to channel some of it int...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Presentation: Social Media Background Checks

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I was invited to present to the IAPP Halifax Knowledgenet today on social media background checks, focusing on both the privacy and human ri...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

10 Ways Canada’s Consumer Privacy Protection Act Will Impact Privacy Practices

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We just posted this on the McInnes Cooper client information site: 10 Ways Canada’s Consumer Privacy Protection Act Will Impact Privacy P...
Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Presentation: Privacy and Cybersecurity - latest trends and legal obligations

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I was invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Atlantic Technology Summit on the topic of cybersecurity, privacy and the law. Not surprisingly, t...
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...