Big Data

Big Data Analytics: Is Consent Required?
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP sponsored a great panel at the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2016 which took place in Toronto on May 11th. The panel was entitled “Business Analytics and Privacy-related Risks”. Many attendees have since contacted me to obtain our slides so I have decided to share them through this blog and summarize some of the […] Read more

Twitter shakes up the big data supply chain: What are the privacy law implications?
Author: Jillian Friedman, lawyer and student DRT6929E Some big news came out of Twitter late Friday night. The social media behemoth announced it will be cutting off “fire hose” access to its data and will no longer licence its stream of half a billion daily tweets to third party data resellers. Here on out Twitter […] Read more
Privacy and the Monetization of Data
Privacy and the Monetization of Data, The Conference Board of Canada, Council of Chief Privacy Officers, Toronto, January 30, 2015. Read more
Big Data: Current and Emerging Issues, Key Issues in Privacy and Information management
Privacy in the age of Big Data
Yves Faguy, Are Canada’s privacy laws robust enough to protect consumers from Big Data?, November 11, 2014. Read more