Monday, May 08, 2023

British Columbia Privacy Commissioner shuts down facial recognition

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Recently, the information and privacy commissioner of British Columbia issued a decision that essentially shuts down most use of facial rec...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Privacy Commissioner of Canada Loses in Federal Court against Facebook

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Just this past week, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was on the receiving end of a Federal Court decision that I would ch...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Privacy laws for drone operators in Canada

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Drone pilots need to know what privacy laws apply to their operations and, unfortunately, the government of Canada isn’t giving them the str...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Where to find me ...

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Given the current dumpster fire at Twitter and the recent ban on outbound links to other social platforms, I thought I'd do a post of wh...
Monday, August 15, 2022

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Can someone legitimately try to stop you from taking photos or recording video in a public place? There are some laws to know about, but t...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Video: OPC Finding: Spam messages sent by COVID testing contractor

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The Privacy Commissioner of Canada just released a report of findings about a company contracted by the Airport of Montreal to do on-arr...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Video: Preparing for Canada's new Consumer Privacy Protection Act

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The government of Canada tabled the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 in the week before parliament rose for their summer break. Wh...
Monday, June 20, 2022

Video: An overview of the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022

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Finally, the government of Canada has tabled its long-awaited privacy law, intended to completely overhaul Canada’s private sector privacy ...