Information About The Canadian Privacy Law Blog

We just posted this on the McInnes Cooper client information site: 10 Ways Canada’s Consumer Privacy Protection Act Will Impact Privacy Practices November 19, 2020 By Sarah Anderson Dykema, CIPP/C, Lawyer at McInnes Cooper, David Fraser, Privacy Lawyer | Partner at McInnes Cooper On November 17, 202 … Read more »

I was invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Atlantic Technology Summit on the topic of cybersecurity, privacy and the law. Not surprisingly, the entire conferene this year was online but it was all well attended. In case it is of interest to others, here’s the presentation I gave which started with a f … Read more »

I had the pleasure of speaking at the University of New Brunswick Law School’s weekly speaker hour, on the topic of non-police use of surveillance technology and how that intersects/collides with Canadian privacy laws. Here are the slides in case it’s of wider interest … … Read more »

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, privacy questions have been in the headlines. International media reported stories from Asia about smartphones being used to enforce quarantine orders. In Ontario, Premier Ford suggested using telecom data to track social isolation compliance and more r … Read more »

Regular readers of this (irregular) blog will recall the milestone case of Jones v Tsige, in which the Ontario Court of Appeal imported into Canada the US privacy torts. That list includes: 1. Intrusion upon the plaintiff’s seclusion or solitude, or into his private affairs. 2. Public disclosure of … Read more »