Information About The Canadian Privacy Law Blog

Just recently, I heard about a very significant new decision from the Ontario Court ofJustice, where a judge in Ottawa ordered OVHcloud in France and its Canadian subsidiary to hand over user data stored in France, the UK, and Australia. While Canada is focusing a lot of attention on “data sovereign … Read more »

On November 19, senior government MPs on the “crime file” held an unexpected press conference that suggests the government is looking to pull lawful access back from the grave. This press conference was full of misinformation and half-truths about the current state of the law and the government’s pr … Read more »

 Can a doctor claim a privacy violation because a website creates a profile for them using public information, hosts anonymous reviews, and ranks them against their peers? The British Columbia Court of Appeal says no in RateMDs Inc. v. Bleuler, 2025 BCCA 329. Let’s walk through what happened — and w … Read more »

In just the past month, kind of unexpectedly, the Nova Scotia government introduced and passed a new public sector privacy and access to information law that completely replaces the existing Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (known here as “FOIPOP”) with a new law that will come i … Read more »

(This post is largely a transcript of the YouTube and podcast episode above.)On September 23, 2025, the Federal Privacy Commissioner and his provincial counterparts in British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec issued a joint report of findings into TikTok.  This is a big one. It raises some interesting — … Read more »