Auteure: Karine Fournier, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Image Source : Commissariat à la protection de la vie privée du Canada En ce 28 janvier, à l’instar de nombreux pays à travers le monde, nous célébrons la Journée internationale de la protection des données ou pour les pays anglophones, la Data Privacy day. Cette journée est une […] Read more
Auteure: Gabrielle Robert, Étudiante au cours de DRT6929E Le 14 janvier 2016, la Cour supérieure de l’Ontario a rendu une décision imposant des limites aux policiers quant aux données confidentielles qu’ils peuvent obtenir des compagnies de téléphonie cellulaire. Cette cause commence en 2014 alors que la Police Régionale de Peel en Ontario enquête sur une série […] Read more
On January 14th, 2016, in R. v. Rogers Communications, Sproat J. of the Superior Court of Justice issued a very important decision for organizations that find themselves subject to a search warrant or production order seeking personal information in their records about third parties. The Court found that an organization in this situation has standing […] Read more
I will be teaching, for a fourth consecutive year, DRT-6929E-A, a privacy law course at the University of Montreal Law Faculty. The class is offered to Masters degree students and takes place every Monday from 4 to 7pm, January 11 to April 11, 2016. I have been teaching since 2009 (e-commerce law from 2009 – […] 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
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that Rogers Media Inc. has paid $200,000 as part of an undertaking to resolve alleged violations of Canada’s anti-spam legislation (CASL). It was alleged that Rogers Media failed to comply with various requirements of CASL, which mostly relate to the unsubscribe requirements. For instance, it is alleged […] Read more
I will be participating at the “Caught in the Web” conference organized by the McGill Law Faculty (Continuing Legal Education) taking place on November 17, 2015 at 6pm. The information society has turned into a supranational knowledge society and digital economy. No discipline can claim a monopoly on regulating its unbridled development. I will be presenting […] Read more
After the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC or in French OCRCVM) who monitors all trading activity across the country suffered a security breach in April 2013 (an employee lost a USB drive containing the personal information of individuals with accounts at various brokerage firms), a class action was filed against IIROC, claiming 1,000$ for each […] Read more
AVIS – En raison de la possibilité d’une grève des employés de la BAnQ Vieux-Montréal qui vient d’être annoncée, l’évènement sera déplacé à l’Université de Montréal, au Laboratoire de cyberjustice (local B-2215) de la Faculté de droit (3101, chemin de la Tour – Métro Côte-des-Neiges / Université de Montréal ou stationnement à l’Oratoire St-Joseph à 5,00 $ ou stationnement […] Read more