Monday, June 30, 2025

Discussion with Michael Geist about the part of Bill C-2 that is not getting enough attention

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Thursday, June 26, 2025

Past Canadian "lawful access" attempts, both by Liberal and Conservative governments

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2005 (Lib - Paul Martin - Minister Anne Maclellan) - C-74 (38-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada - Short title: Modernization of Investi...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Materially misleading statements in the Charter Statement for Bill C-2's Lawful Access provisions

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The government of Canada – specifically the Minister of Justice – just released its “ Charter Statement ” regarding Bill C-2, the Strong Bo...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Alberta's privacy law unconstitutionally violates freedom of expression -- again -- in a decision that has implications for All Canadian privacy laws

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You may have seen some headlines that said that Alberta’s privacy law has been declared unconstitutional. Yup, it’s true that at least part...
Sunday, December 01, 2024

Drones and trespass law in Canada: You don't own your airspace over your property

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A legal question that sometimes comes up for drone pilots is whether you can legally fly over private property and whether a property owner ...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Appeal court reverses Facebook’s Canadian privacy win

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Tuesday, May 07, 2024

Important new Ontario court decision on privilege in incident response documentation

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The Ontario divisional court has just released a decision ,   LifeLabs LP v. Information and Privacy Commr. (Ontario) , 2024 ONSC 2194 , t...
Monday, March 04, 2024

Canada's New "Online Harms" bill - and overview and a few critiques

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  It is finally here: the long-anticipated Online Harms bill . It was tabled in Parliament on February 26, 2024 as Bill C-63. It is not as ...