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Employer access to personal e-mail case demonstrates need for internal controls on IT searches
May 11th, 2012

Employers who are regulated by privacy legislation need to reckon with privacy commissioner oversight in conducting searches of their work systems for evidence of misconduct. This is the clear lesson from the recent and much-discussed Calgary Police Service order of the Alberta OPIC that dealt with... Read more »

ABCA divided on application of Charter to university disciplinary proceedings
May 10th, 2012

Yesterday the Alberta Court of Appeal rendered a significant decision ab0ut whether a university is obligated to consider students’ Charter rights in disciplinary proceedings. This case involved University of Calgary students found guilty of non-academic misconduct in disciplinary proceedings... Read more »

ABCA modifies spoliation remedy, preserves sanction
May 9th, 2012

On March 7th, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench found a departed employee in contempt for counseling a contact to destroy evidence for the purpose of interfering with the administration of justice. The Court ordered the employee: to produce any and all computers and electronic media in his posses... Read more »

Sale of business to proceed under the cover of a PIPEDA exemption order
May 5th, 2012

On April 26th the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued an order under section 7(3)(c) of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to allow to credit unions to merge without gaining the express consent of members. It’s not clear that such an order is actually authori... Read more »

Alberta CA uses cyber-picketing case to raise fundamental doubts about scope of privacy regulation
May 2nd, 2012

The Alberta Court of Appeal dropped a bomb on April 30th by raising extremely broad questions about the constitutionality of Alberta’s commercial sector privacy statute in disposing of a dispute about the right of a union to take images of people who cross a picket line. Last September the Al... Read more »

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