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Should behavioral advertising profiles qualify as “personal information”?
Éloïse Gratton September 11, 2014
The Economist published a great piece on behavioral advertising today: “Getting to know you: Everything people do online is avidly followed by advertisers and third-party trackers”. The article discusses the fact that gathering information about users and grouping them into sellable “segments” has become important for the $120 billion online advertising economy. The article raises an […] Read more
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Verizon: When can a Telco use subscriber’s personal information for marketing purposes?
Éloïse Gratton September 8, 2014
In the U.S., Verizon has recently been slapped with a $7.4 million fine by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a privacy violation, the largest fine the FCC has ever imposed for a privacy violation. What did Verizon do to deserve this fine? It failed to provide the choice of opting out of its […] Read more
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IIROC Security Breach : Class Action Not Authorized
Éloïse Gratton September 4, 2014
The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC or in French OCRCVM) who monitors all trading activity across the country suffered a security breach which was reported in April 2013. It was revealed that an employee lost a USB drive containing the personal information of more than 52,000 individuals with accounts at more than 30 […] Read more
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Deleting Sensitive Material from iCloud
Éloïse Gratton September 2, 2014
The reported iCloud security incident, which exposed photos of celebrities, has highlighted the potential risks of storing files online. According to a WSP article, the iCloud vulnerability was exposed on the code hosting site Github: developers discovered that Apple’s “Find My iPhone” feature could be compromised by a brute force attacks, which is an attack […] Read more
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CASL: Already 85 000 complaints filed at the CRTC
Éloïse Gratton September 1, 2014
CASL, the new Canadian Anti-Spam Law came into force on July 1st. CASL is enforced by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the Competition Bureau and the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. CASL regulates all commercial electronic messages (or “CEM”), which are messages that include among their purposes, the encouragement of participation in a commercial activity. […] Read more
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Limited Protection of Dependents’ Personal Information in Group Insurance Matters
Éloïse Gratton August 29, 2014
A group insurance policy often involves several parties, namely the insurance company, the plan administrator and the insured employee (or “member” of the plan), who rarely however has any negotiating power in this regard. In addition, it is often the case that a member’s dependents will be eligible for benefits under the policy. Administering a […] Read more
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The Internet Never Forgets: Google Inc.’s “right to be forgotten” EU ruling and its implications in Canada
Éloïse Gratton August 26, 2014
In May of this year, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a groundbreaking decision for online privacy rights in Google Inc. v. Agencia Espanola de Proteccion de Datos. The CJEU ruled that European Union citizens have the right to require the erasure of inadequate, irrelevant or outdated information from search engines, […] Read more
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When is it acceptable for an employer to search into its employees’ electronic emails or computer equipment? Part 2 of 2
Éloïse Gratton August 18, 2014
I recently published an article with Patrick Gingras on this topic. The article is entitled “Accéder ou ne pas accéder au matériel informatique de son employé, telle est la question” (which translates to: “To access or not to access its employees’ technological devices: That is the question”). The article is in French so I have summarized […] Read more
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Q. When is adequacy never adequate? A. When Quebec’s data protection law is considered ‘inadequate’ for Europe.
Éloïse Gratton July 29, 2014
On June 4, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party released its Opinion 7/2014 in which it provides its recommendations to the European Commission on whether the relevant provisions of the Civil Code of Québec and the Quebec Act on the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector ensure an adequate level of protection for international data transfers […] Read more