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5 Feb 2015, 7:25 am
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the appeal from the Federal Court of Appeal in the case of Re X. [read post]
31 Oct 2014, 7:57 am
Among the many reasons put forward for "lawful access" and warrantless access to personal information is the need to obtain information in missing persons cases, where the timeliness of obtaining phone information about a missing person can be pivotal in finding a missing person. [read post]
5 Nov 2014, 3:44 am
The Federal Court of Appeal has confirmed the decision by Justice Moseley which found that CSIS and the Department of Justice had lied and withheld material evidence in order to get warrants under the CSIS Act to surveil Canadians outside of Canada. [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 4:00 am
For those Canadians whose eyes have been focused south of the border over the past few days, following the revelation of the Verizon court order and speculation about the PRISM program, it's worth remembering that Canada is in the national security / surveillance business as well. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 3:52 pm
No big surprise, but the Federal Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, has found that the federal government is seriously lacking as far as dealing with data breaches are concerned. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 5:11 am
Charmaine Borg, the NDP's digital issues critic and the most activist MP in the area of privacy has tabled Bill C-580 to update the federal Privacy Act to require breach notification and a mandatory 5-year review of the Act. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 9:31 am
Over the weekend, a deluge of intimate photos of celebrities appeared on the internet, first on 4Chan and then on Reddit (CBC report). [read post]
28 Nov 2014, 8:04 am
Nova Scotia's new Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Review Officer, Catherine Tully, has just tabled the annual report for 2013 [PDF]. [read post]
22 Feb 2013, 5:54 am
The portions of the twitterverse that I follow were abuzz yesterday with posts about how, in Canada, the police can search your cell phone without a warrant unless it is password protected following the release of the Ontario Court of Appeal decision in R. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 12:06 pm
Over the course of the past few weeks, Canadians have been surprised to learn about circumstances where the US immigration authorities appear to have obtained access to sensitive health information about Canadians proposing to travel to the US. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 6:42 pm
If you were watching today's testimony of John Forster, chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada and Michel Coulombe of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Agency before the Senate national security and defence committee, you probably noticed the consistent denial that they were intercepting "private communications", in contrast to metadata. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 3:42 pm
According to the CBC (I haven't found the decision yet), the Federal Court of Canada has called Bell "reprehensible" for accessing a customer's credit file without consent and then showing disdain for his complaint. [read post]
2 Nov 2013, 7:27 am
On Thursday I posted about the new Federal Court case of Chitrakar v. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 9:07 am
Over the past number of months, Halifax Chronicle Herald reporter Selena Ross has been researching the failure of the authorities to lay any charges in the Rehtaeh Parsons case (until political pressure resulted in the case being reopened). [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 6:19 am
As I blogged yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada has announced that it will release its decision in the appeal from Saskatchewan Court of Appeal in R v Spencer, 2011 SKCA 144. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 5:45 am
The Government of Nova Scotia just announced that it is introducing new "secure" provincial ID cards and drivers licenses. [read post]
27 Mar 2013, 10:30 am
The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision this morning in the case of R. v. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 11:26 am
For anyone who was wondering: the arc of the common law is long and it bends towards privacy. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 6:23 pm
Today the Supreme Court of Canada issued a very important privacy decision in R v Jarvis. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 12:01 pm
Ontario's well-regarded Information and Privacy Commissioner, Ann Cavoukian, is stepping down at the conclusion of her unprecedented third term, but is then stepping across town to take a prestigious new position at Ryerson University as the Executive Director of the Ryerson University Institute for Privacy and Big Data. [read post]
