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- Alberta OIPC finds Blackbaud incident gives rise to RROSH
Hat tip to my good colleague Francois Joli-Coeur, who let our group know yesterday that the OIPC Alberta has issued a number of breach notification decisions about the Blackbaud incident, finding in each one that it gave rise to a “real risk of significant harm” that warrants notification and report … Read more »
- BCCA – Open courts principle does not provide for “automatic and immediate” access to court records
On December 9th, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia rejected a media challenge that alleged that the Court’s access policy violates section 2(b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms because it precludes wholly unfettered inspection of court records. The Court held that the Charter gu … Read more »
- Tinker-ing with Machine Learning: The Legality and Consequences of Online Surveillance of Students
I’ve had a long time interest in threat assessment and its application by educational institutions in managing the risk of catastrophic physical violence, though it has been a good ten years since the major advances in Canadian institutional policy. Here is a pointer to a journal article about an ap … Read more »
- The Five Whys, the discomfort of root cause analysis and the discipline of incident response
Here is a non-law post to pass on some ideas about root cause analysis, The Five Whys, and incident response. This is inspired by having finished reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. It’s a good book end-to-end, but Ries’ chapter on adaptive organizations and The Five Whys was most interesting to … Read more »
- Federal Court of Appeal – litigation database privileged, no production based on balancing
On October 20th, the Federal Court of Appeal set aside an order that required the federal Crown to disclose the field names it had used in its litigation database along with the rules used to populate the fields. It held the order infringed the Crown’s litigation privilege. The case management judge … Read more »