For the London Free Press – July 18, 2011 – Read this on Canoe The Canadian privacy commissioner, in her 2010 annual report to Parliament, commented on what she believes to be the future of privacy law in Canada. Jennifer Stoddart mentions three things that need to happen for Canadians to secure a future that [...]
For the London Free Press - July 4, 2011 – Read this on Canoe You have designed the perfect logo for your business. Before investing more time and money in using and promoting your new logo, you want to make sure you have the right to use this trademark for a long time and you’re [...]
For the London Free Press – June 20, 2011 – Read this on Canoe The Ontario Privacy Commissioner’s recently released annual report talks about protecting personal information on mobile devices and the privacy by design concept for the creation of new technology. An enormous amount of private information is processed, transferred and stored via handheld [...]
For the London Free Press – May 30, 2011 - Read this on Canoe The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in R v. Cole establishes that employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the personal use and contents of their work-provided laptop computers. The case involved a Sudbury high school teacher whose work-provided laptop [...]
For the London Free Press – May 9, 2011 Read this on Canoe Recent outages at Amazon and Sony’s PlayStation Network have left businesses and consumers without service for lengthy periods of time. The tech press is full of articles suggesting the bloom is off the rose for cloud services and cloud providers are in [...]
For the London Free Press - April 25, 2011 Read this on Canoe There is a common-law rule that illegally obtained evidence is admissible in court no matter how it was obtained. But there are exceptions. Given the digitally interconnected world we live in, it is not surprising there are cases where evidence has been [...]
For the London Free Press – April 4, 2011 Read this on Canoe Employers who want applicants’ social media log-ins to check them out are going too far It not unusual for employers to conduct Google searches on prospective employees or check their public social media feeds. But prospective employer’s requests for job applicants’ social [...]
For the London Free Press. March 21, 2011 Read this on Canoe The anti-spam bill — Bill C-28 — was passed in December and is expected to be in force later this year. The main goal of the Act is the prevention of spam, but it also contains anti-spyware provisions. Canadian software creators — indeed [...]
For the London Free Press – March 7, 2011 Read this on Canoe The anti-spam bill — Bill C-28 — was recently passed, and will be in force this year. It gives new tools to fight spam, but unfortunately defines spam so broadly that it will affect how most organizations conduct business. Businesses can’t just [...]
For the London Free Press – February 14, 2011 Read this on Canoe PIPEDA: Law requires a high degree of accuracy when collecting personal information The recent Federal Court of Canada decision in Nammo v. Transunion marks the first time damages have been awarded under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Mr. Nammo, [...]