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1 Sep 2017, 1:46 pm
The Digital Privacy Act amended the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) to add notification requirements for "breaches of security safeguards", but we've all been anxiously awaiting regulations that will breathe life into the provisions. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 7:28 am
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has released a new report of findings related to an individual's request of a law firm for information about his possible entitlement as a beneficiary of the estates of his mother and grandmother. [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 7:51 am
Earlier this week, I was invited to testify before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics as part of their study of the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act (here's the notice of meeting: House of Commons Committees - ETHI (42-1) - Notice of Meeting - Number 042 (Official Version)). [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 5:47 am
This past week, the Federal Court of Canada released a very interesting decision in A.T. v. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 1:20 pm
Hot on the heels of Telus' transparency report, SaskTel has also released its very first transparency report [PDF] on government data demands.It's worth giving the report a look, and noting that SaskTel is the only telco in Canada that is also subject to a public sector privacy law that has very broad latitude for data disclosure to law enforcement. [read post]
3 Nov 2014, 1:22 pm
Last week the Supreme Court of Canada, following a motion brought by the government of Alberta, extended the life of the Personal Information Protection Act by six months. [read post]
26 Jan 2013, 7:23 am
A group of civil society organizations and privacy activists are calling upon Microsoft and Skype to be much more forthcoming about Skype's privacy practices, particularly those related to disclosures of user information to governments and law enforcement. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 2:02 pm
You may recall earlier this year when the Canadian Privacy Commissioner completely revised the previous consensus by concluding that a "transfer for processing" was a disclosure that requires consent, along with any cross-border transfer of personal information. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 12:01 pm
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has today released a policy statement on genetic testing and the insurance industry. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 6:37 pm
In an interesting case from British Columbia (Synergy Counselling v. [read post]
26 Apr 2018, 10:47 am
I had the pleasure of giving a presentation to the Atlantic Security Conference this afternoon on Canada's new data breach notification regime, which is coming into effect on November 1, 2018. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 3:48 pm
[Note: If you can see this note, this post is a work in progress. [read post]
29 May 2014, 8:04 am
I just spoke with a friend at the CRTC who alerted me to the following ongoing consultation which has an interesting privacy angle. [read post]
22 Sep 2018, 4:04 pm
A diligent privacy consultant will do a thorough privacy impact assessment, a threat risk assessment or a gap analysis. [read post]
28 Apr 2015, 4:18 pm
This Friday! [read post]
4 Nov 2015, 6:17 am
I had the pleasure of presenting at the Unmanned Systems 2015 conference this week, on the topic of privacy and drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles or unmanned aerial systems). [read post]
22 Aug 2019, 8:12 am
Privacy class actions seem to be having a bit of a rough time as of late. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 6:52 am
The Supreme Court of Canada today released its decision in Information and Privacy Commissioner et al v. [read post]
10 Sep 2016, 3:25 am
The Ontario Small Claims Court, in Halley v McCann, 2016 CanLII 58945 (ON SCSM), has recently awarded a plaintiff $9,000 in damages for breach of privacy. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 2:46 pm
According to the CBC, Bill C-30 is officially dead and any replacement measure will not have a provision for warrantless access to customer information: Government killing online surveillance bill - Politics - CBC NewsFederal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says the controversial Bill C-30, known as the online surveillance or warrantless wiretapping bill, won't go ahead due to opposition from the public.Canadians rallied against the bill after the public safety minister told an opposition MP that he… [read post]
