2015
News
Should users have an expectation of privacy in old or deleted emails?
Éloïse Gratton June 4, 2015
It was reported today that Twitter shut down a site that saved politicians’ deleted tweets. I also recently came across an interesting article entitled Your old emails are fair game for federal eyes. The article discusses the fact that in the U.S., under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, feds would be entitled to access 180-day old emails, texts and […] Read more
Legal News
Targeted Advertising and the “Reasonable Expectations” of Customers
Éloïse Gratton June 2, 2015
An article was published yesterday which pertains to Netflix testing ads surrounding its shows. An update was then posted beside the title of the article to specify: “only its own” to refer to the fact that Netflix would be testing ads to promote its own products and not enabling third party ads. This brings forward the issue […] Read more
News
New privacy books on revenge porn, cyberbullying, pornography and on surveillance in Canada
Éloïse Gratton May 29, 2015
Two privacy books have recently been released: Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era This book was authored by Michael Geist. From the effectiveness of accountability and oversight programs to the legal issues raised by metadata collection to the privacy challenges surrounding new technologies, this book explores current issues torn from the headlines with […] Read more
Events News
Privacy Class Actions: Update, Strategy and Lessons Learned
Éloïse Gratton May 17, 2015
BLG will be hosting a panel discussion entitled “Privacy Class Actions: Update, Strategy and Lessons Learned” at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium taking place on May 27-29 in Toronto. The panelists include Barry Glaspell, Robin Gould-Soil, CIPP/C, Director, Information Access and Privacy, University Health Network as well as myself. The panel will be moderated by Dean Dolan, […] Read more
News
Drones: Objets juridiques non identifiés
Auteure: Sixtine Balot, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Depuis plusieurs années, une nouvelle invention technologique suscite un vif intérêt au cœur de la communauté technophile. Suite à cet engouement croissant qui circule autour des drones, ce travail a pour ambition de déterminer les enjeux juridiques inhérents à cette nouvelle technologie et de ce fait mettre […] Read more
News
Damages awarded for the recording of intimate activities without consent but with limited broadcasting
Éloïse Gratton May 1, 2015
In the recent case of L.D. c. J.V., Superior Court judge Lukasz Granosik awarded damages to a plaintiff after the defendant recorded their sexual activities without her knowledge and consent, in a situation in which there was limited broadcasting of the recording. The plaintiff knew that the defendant had in his possession certain videotapes of his […] Read more
Events
Conference on Emails and the Law
Éloïse Gratton May 1, 2015
I will be participating at an event entitled “Courriel Express. Après-midi d’étude interdisciplinaire” (Email and interdisciplinary study) taking place on may 7th in Montreal. The event is organized by Vincent Gautrais and Marie Demoulin (teachers at the ÉBSI) in the context of the LCCJTI.ca project of the University of Montreal. It can be summarized as an afternoon of interdisciplinary study […] Read more
News
Twitter shakes up the big data supply chain: What are the privacy law implications?
Author: Jillian Friedman, lawyer and student DRT6929E Some big news came out of Twitter late Friday night. The social media behemoth announced it will be cutting off “fire hose” access to its data and will no longer licence its stream of half a billion daily tweets to third party data resellers. Here on out Twitter […] Read more
Legal News
Who watches the watchers? With police body cams, we all can
Author: Jillian Friedman, lawyer and student DRT6929E Worry that the state is abusing its powers through surveillance of its citizens has been a ubiquitous and powerful theme in contemporary political discourse. Most recently it manifests around the Harper government’s Anti Terrorism Law Bill C-51 that would grant additional surveillance powers to the government over Canadian […] Read more
News
Recours collectif considérable contre Facebook en Europe
Auteure: Chloé Cremisi, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Facebook continue à être dans la tourmente en Europe… Un mois après Paris, où la justice française s’est déclarée compétente dans un conflit l’opposant à un internaute, Facebook se trouve à nouveau convoqué au tribunal civil de Vienne suite à un recours collectif déposé jeudi 09 avril. […] Read more