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Guidance on how to protect personal information using adequate safeguards
Éloïse Gratton June 25, 2015
My colleague Bradley Freedman published yesterday short piece entitled “Regulatory Guidance for Safeguarding Personal Information” in which he reviews the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently issued “Interpretation Bulletin – Safeguards” which provides non-binding guidance for compliance with statutory obligations to safeguard personal information. The Interpretation Bulletin is timely in light of […] Read more
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2015 Privacy Class Actions in Canada
Éloïse Gratton June 23, 2015
Last month, BLG hosted 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. Since many attendees have requested a copy of our power point slides which summarized recent privacy class actions in Canada by jurisdiction as well as their […] Read more
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The Digital Privacy Act ( Bill S-4) was proclaimed today
Éloïse Gratton June 18, 2015
Bill S-4, the Digital Privacy Act, the federal government’s latest attempt to reform PIPEDA was proclaimed earlier today. I had testified on S-4 back in March, so for my thoughts on this Bill, please click here. You will find a summary of the Bill below: New breach notification requirement Notification and reporting was voluntarily effected based on […] Read more
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Online Access to Court Decisions and Privacy Implications
Éloïse Gratton June 16, 2015
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner recently issued a finding pertaining to Romania-based website Globe24h.com which is republishing Canadian court decisions, allowing them to be indexed by search engines, and demanding a fee for them to be removed. This website received a great deal of media attention in the last year. Apparently, 27 complaints were filed […] Read more
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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
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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
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Revenge Porn en Californie: 18 ans de prison pour un opérateur de sites Web
Auteure: Isabel Poirier Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le 3 avril dernier, la Procureure générale de la Californie, Kamala D. Harris, publiait un communiqué de presse annonçant la sentence de 18 ans de prison pour Kevin Bollaert, un opérateur de sites Web ayant fait l’objet de poursuite criminelle en matière de revenge porn. Les 3 […] Read more
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Entrée en vigueur de la loi C-13
Auteure: Catherine Paquin-Veillette, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le 9 mars 2015 entrait en vigueur la Loi C-13 intitulée Loi modifiant le Code criminel, la Loi sur la preuve au Canada, la Loi sur la concurrence et la Loi sur l’entraide juridique en matière criminelle. Le gouvernement a tout d’abord introduit cette loi avec le […] Read more
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Un rapport expose le peu de transparence des fournisseurs d’accès Internet au Canada dans la protection des renseignements personnels
Éloïse Gratton March 16, 2015
Auteur: Hugo Fournier-Gendron, Étudiant au cours de DRT6929E À la suite d’un sondage préparé par le Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada dévoilant la crainte grandissante des canadiens quant à la protection de leurs renseignements personnels, l’équipe de recherche IXmaps a publié, le 12 mars dernier, une édition surprenante de son rapport annuel […] Read more
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Une nouvelle loi en matière de protection de renseignements personnels aux États-Unis?
Éloïse Gratton February 7, 2015
Auteur: Hugo Fournier-Gendron, Étudiant au cours de DRT6929E À la suite du rapport Consumer Data Privacy In a Networked World, publié par la Maison Blanche en 2012, l’administration Obama se préparerait à dévoiler durant les prochaines semaines un projet de loi sur la protection de la vie privée des consommateurs aux États-Unis, rapportent de nombreuses […] Read more
