My partner David A. Crerar published a short piece on the recent case of Pritchard v. Van Nes. He explains how Facebook users who angrily vent to online friends may think that they live in a magic bubble free of liability for defamation but that intsead, given the ease and encouragement of sharing on Facebook […] Read more
I will be participating at the “In 2 Words” event organized by the Chaire L.R. Wilson on March 15, 2016 at the University of Montreal. On the first panel, Yann Joly (McGill) will present on “Transhumanism and governance: A possible connection between genetic engineering and cybernetics”, Ian Kerr (U of Ottawa) on “Robots and their Human Counterparts: How AI and Robotics Could Change […] Read more
Auteure: Nada Belhadfa, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le filet de protection du droit à la vie privée en Common Law vient de s’élargir grâce à une décision, l’affaire Doe v. D., rendue par la Cour Supérieure d’Ontario le 15 janvier dernier qui reconnait de manière expresse le tort de “public disclosure of private facts” en […] Read more
In Quebec, the privacy regulator, the Commission d’accès à l’Information (or CAI), was recently seeking comments from local privacy experts on certain potential amendments to the Quebec private sector law, the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (“APPIPS”). Recall that Quebec was the first jurisdiction in Canada to enact a data protection law […] Read more
In Quebec, the Commission d’accès à l’Information (or the CAI), was recently seeking comments from local privacy experts on certain potential amendments to the Quebec private sector law, the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector. Recall that Quebec was the first jurisdiction in Canada to enact a data protection law in 1994. […] Read more
I will be presenting on De-identification around the World, at the Privacy, Security, Risk 2015, presented by the IAPP Privacy Academy and CSA Congress, in Las Vegas, on October 1, 2015. My co-panelists are Phil Lee, Head of US Office, Fieldfisher and Andrew Reiskind, Deputy CPO, MasterCard. All around the world, personal information is defined in a wide […] Read more
Online merchants can offer each website customer a different price given that it can recognise such customer through the use of a cookie and can therefore categorise the customer based on other information (previous purchases, etc.). Many regard price discrimination as unfair or manipulative and I have already blogged about this issue a while back: Dynamic pricing […] Read more
Two great U.S. privacy academics, Ira Rubinstein and Woodrow Hartzog, have released last week their article on anonymization and risk. They articulate the view that perfect anonymization of data sets has failed and that although the process of protecting individuals in shared information remains integral to privacy practice and policy, there is no clear direction for policy. Data protection […] Read more
I recently published a blog post on the topic of Is taking someone’s picture in public breaching their privacy? I have since received many questions pertaining to whether using or publishing someone’s Facebook profile information could be considered as breaching their privacy. Facebook users post information and pictures about themselves and their loved ones as […] Read more
Many organizations remain very broad in their website privacy policies on the use made of the information collected. Recent bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, the federal government’s latest attempt to reform PIPEDA was proclaimed last month and proposes a revised “valid consent” provision (PIPEDA, s. 6.1), by shifting from a subjective standard to a more objective standard. To […] Read more