That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. With Parliament back in session, we are seeing more attention on the proposed “lawful access” legislation. There is good reason for that. Many of us believe the proposed legislation is an affront to privacy, and gives law enforcement overly intrusive rights without [...]
For more details see the Privacy Commissioner’s website.
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. Getting the privacy balance right is not easy, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. As examples, here are some recent developments that go both ways. Pro Privacy Proposed Bill C-12 amendments to PIPEDA that would mandate privacy breach notification in certain circumstances. [...]
For the London Free Press – January 23, 2012 – Read this on Canoe The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently tabled its Annual Report on the Privacy Act. The airport scanner issue receiving much of the press, however there are a number of other noteworthy items in the report. The Privacy [...]
The Ontario Court of Appeal just released its decision in Jones v Tsige saying that there is a tort of invasion of privacy in Ontario. Until this decision, it was generally felt that this right did not exist in Ontario. The court also refers to the tort as intrusion upon seclusion. The gist of the [...]
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. Here are some of the sites that are going dark today, or changing their home pages in protest over the proposed US legislation. For more information on why this legislation is so bad, check out these sites, or search for “SOPA” on [...]
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows. As Connie mentioned, the annual Consumer Electronics Show is now underway in Las Vegas. The tech press is full of commentary on the latest and greatest things at the show. One trend is that everything is becoming more intelligent and more connected, [...]
For the London Free Press – January 9, 2012 – Read this on Canoe Here are some tech developments to look out for in 2012. The proposed amendments to Pipeda, the Canadian federal-privacy legislation, will be passed. Several of the amendments are long overdue, and will give some practical relief to business, without any compromise [...]
That’s the title of my Slaw post for today. It reads as follows: Pending legislation always makes good fodder for lawyers to comment on in annual predictions articles. The pending anti-spam legislation has resulted in several such comments. In my predictions article scheduled for publication next week, I comment that: The Federal anti-spam legislation that [...]
The Canadian Federal law An Act respecting the mandatory reporting of Internet child pornography by persons who provide an Internet service came into force on Dec 8. (Even though the regulations under the act won’t be published until next week.) The Act requires those providing an “Internet Service” to report to either the police, or to [...]