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“Intrusion upon seclusion” the tort whose time has come?

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 2 2012

It’s not every day that new common law is created, but on January 18 of this year the Ontario Court of Appeal gave Canadian privacy lawyers something to get excited about by creating a new tort called “intrusion upon seclusion” in the case of Jones v. Tsige

License plates numbers are not “personal information” under Alberta’s privacy laws

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada, USA
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  • November 29 2011

The Supreme Court of Canada recently denied leave to appeal a controversial decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal concerning the meaning of “personal information”

Federal Court of Canada gives organizations a break

  • Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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  • Canada
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  • September 29 2010

Since the introduction in Canada of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ("PIPEDA"), lawyers advising organizations involved in civil litigation sometimes have struggled with the "rules of the road" to apply in terms of requests for disclosure of records containing personal information