Canadian Privacy Law Blog

 It is finally here: the long-anticipated Online Harms bill . It was tabled in Parliament on February 26, 2024 as Bill C-63. It is not as bad as I expected, but it has some serious issues that n...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2024/03/canadas-new-online-harms-bill-and.html

There’s a bill working its way through the Parliament that presents a clear and present danger to the free and open internet, to freedom of expression and to privacy online. It’s a private m...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2024/02/canadian-bill-s-210-proposes-age.html

I also had the oppotunity to talk about this silly take with CBC Information Morning Halifax and Cape Breton. You can listen to the interviews here: Halifax , Cape Breton .

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2023/12/how-grinch-stole-privacy-privacylawyer.html

Decision follows trend starting in BC that a virtual presence in Canada is enough to be ordered to produce records The Federal Court of Canada, in connection with an application for a warrant a...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2023/12/federal-court-concludes-that-virtual.html

SO SOMEONE FROM CSIS JUST CALLED …. There’s a first time for everything. You get a call from an “UNKNOWN NUMBER” and the caller says they work with Public Safety Canada and they’r...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2023/12/being-on-receiving-end-of-warrant-from.html

So Bill c-27, also known as the digital charter implementation act of 2022 has been before Canada's Parliament for consideration for quite some time. Even before this parliamentary session, a bil...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2023/11/what-is-legitimate-interests-exception.html

Recently, the information and privacy commissioner of British Columbia issued a decision that essentially shuts down most use of facial recognition technology in the retail context. What’s in...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2023/05/british-columbia-privacy-commissioner.html

Just this past week, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada was on the receiving end of a Federal Court decision that I would characterize as more than a little embarrassing for the Co...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2023/04/privacy-commissioner-of-canada-loses-in.html

Given the current dumpster fire at Twitter and the recent ban on outbound links to other social platforms, I thought I'd do a post of where to find me: Twitter: https://twitter.com/privacylawyer ...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/12/where-to-find-me.html

Can someone legitimately try to stop you from taking photos or recording video in a public place? There are some laws to know about, but the answer for Canada is that you generally have the right...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/08/can-someone-legitimately-try-to-stop.html

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada just released a report of findings about a company contracted by the Airport of Montreal to do on-arrival covid testing. The company added the people tested to...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/08/video-opc-finding-spam-messages-sent-by.html

The government of Canada tabled the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022 in the week before parliament rose for their summer break. While this is in limbo, what, if anything, should Canadian ...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/06/video-preparing-for-canadas-new.html

Finally, the government of Canada has tabled its long-awaited privacy law, intended to completely overhaul Canada’s private sector privacy law, and rocket the country to the front of the pack f...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/06/video-overview-of-digital-charter.html

The government wants border agents to be able to search your smartphones and laptops without any suspicion that you’ve done anything wrong. I think that’s a problem. There are a lot of proble...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/05/the-problem-with-bill-s-7-device.html

Canadian businesses are routinely asked by police agencies to provide customer information in order to further their investigations or intelligence gathering. The police generally do not care whe...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/05/video-law-enforcement-requests-for.html

I had the honour this week of presenting to a continuing education event for judges on privacy civil claims, past, present and future. I was jointed by Antoine Aylwin and Erika Chamberlain . T...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/05/presentation-privacy-civil-claims.html

I was very kindly invited back to give a keynote at the Canadian Cyber Summit for the High Technology Crime Investigation Association . I spoke about the role of lawyers in incident response and...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/05/presentation-lawyers-and-infosec.html

Canada’s anti-spam law is about much more than just spam. It also regulates the installation of software. Like the rest of the law, it is complicated and convoluted and has significant penaltie...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/04/canadas-anti-spam-law-and-installation.html

In my legal practice, I have seen businesses fail because they did not take privacy into account. I’ve seen customers walk away from deals because of privacy issues and I’ve seen acquisitions...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/04/video-privacy-and-start-ups-what.html

Today, I’m going to be talking about the newly announced “CLOUD Act” agreement negotiation process between Canada and the US to facilitate cross-border law enforcement investigations. Thi...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/03/video-canada-us-announce-beginning-of.html

Today, I’m going to be talking about privacy rights and freedom of expression in Canada. Specifically, I’m going to be talking about privacy and news reporting. This is a pretty big topic t...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/03/video-privacy-laws-and-media-part-1.html

In my legal practice, I exclusively advise businesses on matters related to privacy and technology law. But I am sometimes asked by individuals about the use of home surveillance cameras. Because...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/03/video-home-surveillance-cameras.html

New on my YouTube Channel . INTRO Today I am going to be speaking about individual personal information access requests. If you're from Europe, you probably have heard the term data subject ac...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/03/video-individual-access-requests-under.html

New on my YouTube Channel . Today I am going to be talking about what privacy policies are really for under Canadian privacy laws. They are everywhere – on every website – seldom read. Bu...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/02/video-what-are-privacy-policies-for-in.html

New on my YouTube Channel . In today's video, I am going to talk about the mosaic of privacy laws that we have in Canada and what they have to say about cross border data transfers. First, I ...

http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2022/02/video-cross-border-data-flows-for-canada.html