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Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

Individual issues overwhelm in data breach class action

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 29 2013

A 'massive' data breach occurred at Hannaford Bros supermarkets over a 3-month period in 2007-08, resulting in the theft of customer financial

Metadata analysis data about data

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 24 2013

A Nova Scotia court judge recently required a plaintiff to relinquish his hard drive for a "metadata" analysis which would show the active use of his

Context, content and privacy in warrantless searches of cell phone and cameras

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 24 2013

Context and content matters to the assessment of reasonable expectations of privacy in criminal law matters. Recently, in R. V. B. (C.), 2013

Data protection: defining innovative drug in Canada

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 22 2013

Canada amended its Data Protection Regulations in 2006 to provide protection for innovative drugs in a second attempt to implement Canada's 1994

Canada raises the bar on communications privacy

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 13 2013

The Supreme Court of Canada has made it more difficult for police to obtain cellphone text messages in storage. In R. V. TELUS Communications Co

If you expect privacy and confidentiality at the workplace take steps to get it!

  • Stewart McKelvey
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 11 2013

the employer had to trust Ms. Steel to only access such documents as part of the performance of her duties and to follow the protocols when

Federal Court of Appeal considers data protection provisionsagain

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • April 8 2013

The recent decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) in Minister of Health v. Celgene Inc. (Celgene) marks the second split decision of that

Alberta Court releases landmark decision protecting confidential and proprietary information

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 4 2013

The unauthorized misuse and conversion of confidential and proprietary information is an unfortunate reality for many corporations. Companies spend

General warrant not enough for access to stored text messages; specific wiretap authorisation required

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 2 2013

Two Telus subscribers in Owen Sound, Ont. appeared to be sending more than the usual 'LOL' or even 'LMFAO' kind of text messages. On the strength of