I have co-authored a short piece summarizing an important new decision Doe 464533 v. D., 2016 ONSC 514 (note: the names are redacted because of a publication ban issued in the same decision), in which the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (the “Court”) formally recognized the existence of a so-called new privacy tort, making available common […] Read more
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
My colleague Brad Freedman recently wrote a short piece on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (“PCI DSS”), a contractual standard for the protection of data regarding payment cards issued by the major card brands, including Visa, MasterCard and American Express. Organizations that accept payment card transactions or store, process or transmit payment card data […] 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
BLG’s Top 10 Legal Risks for Business in 2016 is BLG’s annual thought leadership report forecasting the key trends and regulatory changes that will have legal implications for its clients in the year ahead. Many of the risks discussed are privacy and data security related. For instance, the report discusses the fact that Privacy Class […] 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